Pop quiz: What’s your favorite Nicolas Winding Refn movie? Let’s hope most folks are coming to Too Old to Die Young, the Danish writer-director’s pulpy-as-fuck TV series for Amazon Prime, as something akin to fans. Or, at the very least, as viewers semi-aware of his back catalog. Because God help …
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You can’t watch a frame of Jason Hall’s Thank You for Your Service, about Iraq war veterans suffering from PSTD, without believing the film’s intentions are honorable. Points for that, for sure. Yet as filmmaking – this is Hall’s feature directing debut – Thank You for Service seems too timid …
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If you’ve been to the movies any time over the last century, you’re familiar with men like Eric Marsh. They’re hard-ass guys, often stoic but capable of being sensitive and, in rare cases, prone to sentimentality. Their flaws and temper-flares are balanced out by their virtues: staunch professionalism, a salt-of-the-earth …
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