This is the End would be more appropriately titled, This is the Movie My Friends and I Would Make if We had a Lot of Money. This is not to say that This is the End is a bad movie. It’s funny. It has its moments of sentiment, and the cast is redoubtable – or, as much […]
The incisor that slowly falls from the hockey player’s mouth, just after his blood forms Pollack-like droplets on the ice, casts Goon as a film that celebrates controlled violence. Puccini’s “Diecimile anni al nostro Imperatore” accompanies this scene, as do cheers from the crowd and smiles on the face of the enforcer who protected his team’s marquee […]