Tag Archives: Casey Affleck

Our Friend review — Two hour misery dirge

Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Written by Brad Ingelsby, based on an article by Matthew Teague | 124 min | Netflix Our Friend is apparently based on a true story,  originally documented in an award-winning Esquire article by foreign correspondent Matthew Teague. I'd like to read that piece, because I'd like to know how this… Read More

Triple 9 review — Guns and guts in peach tree country

Directed by John Hillcoat | Written by Matt Cook | 115 min | ▲▲▲△△ Australian director Hillcoat is a deliverer of masculine, violent genre tales such as The Proposition and Lawless. While he's not colluding with his partner-in-crime Nick Cave this time out, this picture isn't much of a departure in a story of (mostly) bad men. If anything the… Read More