Author: BRWC

Let Him Go: Another Review

By Nick Boyd. “Let Him Go,” a period piece set in early 1960s Montana, centers on a rancher named George (Kevin Costner) and his wife named Margaret (Diane Lane) whose son is suddenly killed in a horse riding accident. The son is married with a child and when his widow Lorna remarries someone of questionable character named Donnie Weboy, this sets the plot into motion.

One day when Margaret sees Lorna’s new husband, Donnie, hit her and the child, she becomes convinced that he is definitely a bad influence. When Margaret finds out her daughter-in-law, new husband, and grandson have left town, she makes it her mission to find them. Her goal is to bring the grandson home with her and her husband to raise them in a better environment.

Along this journey, we learn that Margaret is headstrong and opinionated, while George is more laid-back. A chance encounter with a young Native-American man named Peter who lives on his own provides some of the quieter, more sadder moments in the movie, as Peter recounts to Margaret and George his harsh discriminatory upbringing.

When Margaret and George arrive at Donnie’s mom’s house, things do not get off to a good start. The matriarch of a corrupt and local influential family, Blanche (Lesley Manville), cannot believe they did not come all that way simply to enjoy her delicious home-cooked meal. Blanche is very protective of Donnie and it appears that she likely had a say in his returning to be near her. The Weboy’s as a whole seem like they have it in for Margaret and George and as the movie progresses, a violent showdown seems inevitable. The actors portraying various members of the Weboys all give over-the-top performances, yet that fits their characters and does not detract from things. Manville especially is entertaining in the performance that she gives.

While the film starts off as a Clint Eastwood film, in its pacing and how it unfolds, in the latter part it turns into a horror movie of sorts. Some spoilers to follow, so consider not reading this part if you have not seen the film. Decision-making starts to go downhill when Margaret gets into the car of a fellow Weboy, as they head off towards Blanche’s house.

It did not make sense that Margaret would have gotten in the car with someone who seemed like he could have done something evil to her. Also, after Margaret and George have had lunch with just Lorna, and she seems to go along with a plan they have made, why would she have revealed the exact motel location Margaret and George were staying to the Weboy clan if she was on their side?

Why would George have gone back to the Weboy’s house after all they had done to him at the motel? Also, it did not make sense that George would linger in the Weboy’s house after rescuing his grandson and getting Lorna to leave. He should have immediately left, especially after what he had done to their house. Lastly, how could George have survived getting shot so many times?

The acting by Costner and Lane is understated and quite good and the cinematography really captures the beauty of the landscapes. The two sides truly show what it means to have devotion and family loyalty.

9th December 2020
Wild Rides: Top Three Most Outlandish Movie Scenes We Love

Wild Rides: Top Three Most Outlandish Movie Scenes We Love

Great movies always make us feel something. Be it tears, laughter, wonder, or joy, the most memorable scenes must elicit some sort of emotional reaction. So, what about the scenes that make us scratch our heads? Well, we love them, too.

Read on to discover our top picks for the most outlandish movie scenes out there and consider watching them to get a healthy dose of wild rides and unreality along with your next movie night.

Casino Royale: Final Poker Scene Leaves Some Reality to be Desired

There’s no doubt that Casino Royale is among the best 007 films of all time. This movie has action, intrigue, beautiful women, and a suave hero who just so happens to be an absolute fox at the poker table. That’s a good thing, as it all comes down to the cards during Bond’s final showdown with criminal mastermind banker Le Chiffre. The movie wraps up with their high-stakes game of Texas Hold ‘em, featuring a total of four players sitting around a pot of over $100 million.

So, what exactly makes this scene so outlandish? If you want to appreciate it to the fullest, consider brushing up on card rankings and poker hands before you start watching. That way, you’ll be able to calculate the odds of all four card combinations and realize just how unlikely that particular set of hands would be.

Each player holds a hand of extremely high value. The two extra millionaires hold a flush and a full house, while Le Chiffre holds a higher full house—but Bond’s straight flush manages to beat them all out in the end. The likelihood of this occurring in real life is so minuscule it makes the scene almost laughable. While we adore Casino Royale, this particular poker game misses the mark of realism by several miles.

Fast & Furious 6: No One Needs Physics with their Highway Chase

No list of the most outlandish movie scenes would be complete without mentioning Fast and Furious. While many moments in this franchise deliver jaw-dropping ridiculousness, none defies physics more than the final chase scene in Fast & Furious 6.

Here we see our colorful cast of characters flying down the highway at a few million miles an hour, with Luke Evans operating an actual military tank to add a bit of extra oomph to the scene. The objective of the chase is pretty unimportant, and you’ll probably forget what it is as you watch the action play out.

The pièce de résistance is when Vin Diesel leaps out the window of the car he is currently driving to catch Michelle Rodriguez as she is thrown from the said tank, catching her in midair and propelling her to safety with what we can only assume is the momentum of his sheer bravado. Somehow, nobody dies, even when the duo land on the windshield of another car traveling at a few million miles an hour.

The Room: Things Get Weird on the Roof with Spectacularly Bad Acting

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, chances are you’ve seen Tommy Wiseau’s broken brainchild, The Room. Because this cringe-fest of a film features so many outlandish scenes, it’s truly difficult to just pick one—but since we have to choose, we’ll go with the roof scene. While the preposterous nature of this scene is a bit more subtle, it’s because of bad writing and even worse acting rather than an unrealistic plotline.

Here, Wiseau and Sestero sit on a balmy San Francisco rooftop made entirely of false angles, scrambled green-screens, and misplaced hope. Sestero is trying to subtly convey to Wiseau that his girlfriend is cheating on him, using the classic technique of telling a roundabout story of a different girl cheating on a different man.

Anyone who has seen this movie knows just how ridiculous the entire scene is. As Wiseau’s personality changes at the drop of a hat, he displays a complete lack of any understanding of human emotions. It’s hilarious to watch, and it may be the exact scene that caused this movie to become a cult classic in the first place.

Ready to get watching? While this list is by no means exhaustive, it is a great start to any tongue-in-cheek movie marathon. Now that you’ve got a handle on some of the most outlandish movie scenes ever recorded, you can break out the popcorn and settle in for a night of smirking at your screen.

Wild Rides: Top Three Most Outlandish Movie Scenes We Love

8th December 2020
Farewell Amor: Review

Farewell Amor: Review. By Trenyt Neely.

This film from writer/director Ekwa Msangi follows an Angolan family reunited after 17 years apart. Father and husband Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), his wife Esther (Zainab Jah), and their daughter Sylvia (Jayme Lawson). Upon initially reuniting, all are filled with an understandable mix of joy and trepidation given the years that have gone by. Walter has been working as a cab driver in New York City, waiting and petitioning for the immigration process to be finalized so his wife and daughter could join him. It is soon revealed however, that Walter had a serious relationship with another woman during his separation from Esther and Sylvia, causing him great guilt.

Compounding his guilt is the fact that during their time apart, Esther has become a strict Christian. She spends the film regularly listening to sermons and forcing Walter and Sylvia to attend church and pray fervently, even though they do not share her level of zeal for the faith. For her part, Sylvia finds herself in conflict with her desire to pursue her passion for dance and her mother’s disapproval of it, as she views it to be immodest. In addition, Sylvia does not have a lot of memories of her father. Not only is she far from her friends and what is familiar as she is thrust into American society, but she has to develop a bond with a man she hardly knows. The film follows this family as they seek to navigate the American experience, deal with their personal struggles, and build their family and life together after such a lengthy time apart.

One of this film’s greatest strengths is how much care and time it takes with its three protagonists. Msangi chooses to have the film separated into three sections, each one titled and focused on one member of the family. This allows for the full depth and complexity of each character to shine through and minimizes the degree that a character is reduced to cliches or simplistic interpretations.

Consequently, such a character-centric approach requires strong performances, and the actors here more than meet the challenge. Mwine as Walter perfectly captures the struggle of a man who has sacrificed and worked for years to build a future and a life for his family, while at the same time wrestling with the fact that he has lost a lot of time with them and must therefore rebuild those relationships. Also, he must reconcile that while he loves his family, he developed a genuine love and bond with another woman. Mwine portrays this effectively by delivering a lot of his dialogue in hushed tones and with his head down. This goes a long way in showing the audience a man of a caring nature, and also one who carries a lot on his shoulders.

Jah also does a great job taking on a role that could have proved to be somewhat limiting. It is easy at the start of the film to view the character of Esther as overly fearful and controlling due to the severity of her religious convictions. However once one gets to the portion of the film focused on her and sees the history and context surrounding her, it is understood that her faith is her anchor during a turbulent time in her life as she is adjusting to this new country. In addition, she has a layered view of America as a land of opportunity, but also a land of corruption if one does not stay vigilant. As a result, she views it as her Christian duty to remain prayerful not just for her own sake, but the sake of her husband and daughter. Jah has the added challenge of spending a lot of screen time isolated as her character is home alone while Walter works and Sylvia attends school. This means Jah must convey these complex emotions largely through prayers that serve as monologues, and phone calls where her speech and facial expressions are her main tools, which Jah uses to great effect.

Similarly, Lawson imbues Sylvia with a maturity not always present in teen characters. Sylvia wants to pursue dance and ordinary teen experiences, we see the joy on Lawson’s face when she is lost in music. At the same time, she does not wish to upset her mother by dancing, who has been her sole source of comfort and stability during her life. Ironically, Sylvia’s relationship with Walter really begins to grow when he encourages her to pursue dance, even though both of them know it upsets Esther. When Sylvia upsets her mother, the sadness and pain is as clear on Lawson’s face in these moments as the moments of joy are when she dances.

The film’s cinematography also does a great job of showing the complex relationships between the three characters. For the scene of their reunion at the airport that opens the film, cinematographer Bruce Francis Cole keeps the camera far away from the action and refuses to cut the opening shot for a long time. This allows the apprehension and stiffness the characters are experiencing to be conveyed succinctly and stronger than dialogue probably could. Even as film progresses, Cole frequently uses wide-angle lenses for dialogue scenes, so even when characters are in a relatively small space, it feels like there is a great distance between them. Again using the power of visuals to show how difficult it can be to rebuild relationships after long periods of absence.

If you are looking for a film that offers a deep, nuanced, character-driven look at the immigrant experience and how that affects a family, seek this film out if given the chance.

6th December 2020
Beasts Clawing At Straws: The BRWC Review

Beasts Clawing At Straws: The BRWC Review. By Alif Majeed.

It all started with a bag. And an expensive Louis Vuitton bag at that. Pulp Fiction may not be the first movie that did the whole people chasing a suitcase routine or dividing the film into chapters, but it opened the pandora’s box and providing filmmakers with the template that many still use. After Pulp Fiction came out, several imitators came up with the same formula but have never emulated it, becoming instantly forgettable.

Beasts Clawing at Straws might seem like an imitator at first, especially when we see the bag of cash but soon develops into something wholly with its own personality. The director, Kim Yong-hoon, took everything that the imitators did wrong and course correct and refined the formula.

Though the connection with the Tarantino movies is apparent, it is Fargo with its dark humor, multiple characters having different motivations but all of them after the same thing that comes out as it’s forbearer. It might seem easy to go full Tarantino by making the violence over the top and cartoonish, but the Coen brothers are a trickier proposition. It is tough to create a balance of dark humor and action that they do so well. Even the great Zhang Yimou found it problematic when he transported in Blood Simple into China with A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop. Noah Crawley handled it well enough in the Fargo series. Beasts Clawing at Straws could well be a truncated version of a season of that show.

You keep trying to figure out how things are related to each other and in what order and any discussion of the plot will dilute the film’s enjoyment even though the narration itself can make quite an impression. Still, when the multiple storylines finally resolve itself while crisscrossing across all the timelines and people, full credit goes to the director as he keeps it even across the board.

A big part of its success also goes to the protagonists that populate the story, and the cast is uniformly good. With their different motivations and a desperate blind grab at straws, despite some not being aware of the bag and how it can change their future. It includes a struggling hotel worker (Bae Seong-woo), who finds the bag full of cash in one of the hotel bathroom lockers, along with an office worker whose girlfriend ran away with the money he borrowed from a gangster. There is also a woman working as a part-time escort who is in a terrifyingly abusive relationship. One of her suitors cum customers with a misguided sense of chivalry. At the center of it all is the mysterious femme fatale Tae-young, who has a connection with all of them.

When taken as a part of a whole, all the actors fit together perfectly and sync with each other. Particular praise should go to Jung Woo-sung as the lovesick office worker who is in over his head with a gang of deadly gangsters, including an assassin who has a particular soft spot for raw meat, both human and otherwise. Also in brilliant form is Jeon Do-Yeon, the femme fatale who, in a classic noir-ish fashion, lands up at Yeon’s doorstep out of nowhere asking for a favor, as how many noir movies go.

Even after all that she did to him, leaving him in an uncomfortable spot, he still doesn’t stand a chance with that woman. Her character stands out both in terms of characterization and Jeon’s game performance.

Comparing it to Parasite, not just last year’s best Korean movie, but also one of the best movies to come from there is quite a stretch. You can also spot the places where it follows the rulebook and almost becoming a parody of the films that came before it. But as a whole, it is a joy ride that you will be glad you took.

5th December 2020
The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2020

The Highest-Paid Actors of 2020

Top-tier actors charge large sums for acting. Their checks may imply dozens of millions. Do you want to know who receives the largest payments in the industry? Continue reading the post and discover who are the highest-paying Hollywood stars.

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne takes first place in this list for the second time. He also was at the top of the most high-paying stars last year. This actor switched from wrestling to the film industry and gained his popularity very fast.

The forthcoming film Red Notice from Netflix helped him to get a $23.5 million check. Also, Dwayne is succeeding with his sporty apparel line, ‘Under Armor.’

Moreover, according to the rumors, 2020 isn’t the last year when Dwayne leads the most-paying artists. He is planning to act as a DC superhero next year.

Ryan Reynolds

Ryan is a very popular actor, thanks to ‘Deadpool’ and other films. This year, he acted in the ‘Six Underground’ and ‘Red Notice’ movies and earned up to 50 million dollars. Also, he will get another eight-figure check for starring in the ‘Christmas Carol’ movie.

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Mark Wahlberg

It’s hard to find a person who doesn’t know Mark Wahlberg. He’s in the industry for a while. Since most of the movies where he starred became very popular, he is a very demanding actor.

The comedy ‘Spenser Confidential’ has grown to be the third most-watched on Netflix. Also, he starred in the ‘McMillions,’ ‘Wahl Street,’ and the upcoming ‘Infinite.’

Ben Affleck

Ben is a unique actor who played different roles extremely convincingly. Thanks to his talent, Ben was invited to act in the ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ and ‘The Way Back’ films. These films helped earn roughly $55 million, which allows him to take the fourth stage in the list.

Vin Diesel

This fast-cars lover has lost a lot of money due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The ‘F9’ movie announcement was postponed to April 2021. However, he still got a lot of earnings for acting as a producer at ‘Fast & Furious Spy Racers’ from Netflix.

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Akshay Kumar

This actor isn’t widely known in North America, even though he’s a Canadian. Akshay is a huge Bollywood star, which helped him to earn $48.5 million this year. These days, Akshay is working on the ‘The End’ show, which will make him more popular. However, most of his profits come from advertisement contracts.

Jennifer Lopez

Jenifer is the first lady on the list. This year, she made more than $47 million thanks to the prior year’s ‘Hustlers’ movie. Also, she is working on the ‘Marry Me’ film that will bring more money. Besides, she earns money from endorsements.

Will Smith

Will is a trendy actor who got a lot of money from the ‘Bad Boys for Life’ movie. He’s also acting on ‘King Richard’, which portrays Serena and Venus Williams’ dad. Will Smith is also getting a lot of money from his YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok accounts.

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Final Words

Even though this year was tough for most actors, the most popular ones could earn dozens of millions. Unfortunately, a lot of great movies’ release dates were postponed due to the COVID-19 spread. However, it means that we will enjoy a lot of great films soon when the number of cases goes down.

The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2020

1st December 2020