Category: SHORT & SNAPPY
SHORT & SNAPPY #6: “Dope” (2015) – Nope
Poorly executed attempts at near-slapstick mix with clumsy, blunt moments of social messaging to produce a film not funny enough to be a comedy and…
SHORT & SNAPPY #5: “The Photograph” (2019) – Underdeveloped
Low key misfire of a rom-com-drama suffers from underwritten characters and a story that struggles to scratch and claw its way above the generic. Magazine…
SHORT & SNAPPY #4 – “Under the Silver Lake” (2018) – Strictly Shallow Waters
Tease and tease all you like, but at some point you have to deliver. Cluttered with one half-baked half-scene, half-hallucination after another, “Under the Silver…
SHORT & SNAPPY #3 – “Viva Maria!” (1965) – Viva la Fast Forward Button!
French sex kitten Brigitte Bardot plays Maria – a half-Irish Irish revolutionary in the early 1900s. With her father leading the way, she has been…
SHORT & SNAPPY #2 – “Just Mercy” (2019) – Foxx, Morgan, Nelson and Friends
Fresh out of law school, Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) heads down to Alabama and opens up a firm exclusively tailored to death row inmates….
SHORT & SNAPPY #1 – “The Way Back” (2020) – Brought Their ‘C’ Game
Some seventeen years after leading his high school basketball team to championship glory, construction worker Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) is invited back – this time…