Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, or as it was known briefly prior to its “re-branding”, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is the partially-stand-alone, partially-preempted-franchise-starter follow-up to David Ayer’s 2016 film Suicide Squad. The latter was by all accounts a complete dumpster fire and one of my biggest letdowns of that year. Birds of Prey continues to follow Suicide Squad member Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), but nearly all other references to the previous film have been scrubbed clean in an effort to soft reboot the property. Meanwhile, nobody is complaining. While it retains some surface […]Read more »
Daily Archives: February 16, 2020
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The Gentlemen is the latest movie from writer/director Guy Richie and marks his return to the British street crime genre for the first time since 2008’s RocknRolla. In the interim, he has directed two Sherlock Holmes films, a failed King Arthur “reboot”, the live-action Aladdin film and the criminally under-seen The Man from U.N.C.L.E. After over a decade, he seems to very naturally slip back into the feel of things. The violence, the non-linear story-telling, the uncouth and frankly uncomfortable vulgarity; it’s all here. In all this time it’s refreshing to see he hasn’t really changed. Unfortunately for him, however, […]Read more »