371 posts categorized "Drama"

March 02, 2022

FAT CITY

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ColeSmithey.comJohn Huston's 1972 boxing drama, based on screenwriter Leonard Gardner's novel, is a bruiser. 

"Fat City" fits right alongside "Night Moves," "Atlantic City" and "The King of Marvin Gardens" for its bleak depiction of a '70s era America falling apart at the seams.

No one has any money.

Romance is a down and dirty business.

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Boxing serves as an apt metaphor about fighting for survival under Capitalism with few resources or any real sense of hope.

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Stacey Keach, Jeff Bridges, and Susan Tyrrell dish out the pain.

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February 11, 2022

CODA

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ColeSmithey.comThis tearjerker rolls deep.

"CODA" (child of deaf adults) hits all the right notes.

Communication is the key for CODA's family of fishers.

Sex is treated as a normal thing for the once in American Cinema. 

Refreshing.

Emilia Jones gives a fierce performance as a hopeful young singer with a golden tone.

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Jones's worthy co-actors (Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant, and Eugenio Derbez) pull their weight.

Wow.

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If your heart's not on your sleeve, it's probably in the wrong place.

Rated PG-13. 111 mins. 

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February 07, 2022

THE BANKER

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ColeSmithey.comEntertaining stuff of legend.

Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, and Nicholas Hoult work their magic as a trio of Los Angeles real estate entrepreneurs who get in over their heads when they expand into bank-owning in Texas.

"Inspired by true events," and real people.

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"The Banker" achieves its worthy goal of shining light on economic subjugation by the [white] Man, as executed through all means of public and private reality in America.

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