Film Review: Lone Survivor (2013)

In June of 2005, four Navy SEALs were sent out on a mission known as Operation Red Wings. The objective was to kill Ahmad Shah, a local Taliban leader who had been coordinating attacks against U.S. and Afghani government forces. Within hours of being dropped into hostile territory, the team consisting of Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg), Mike Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch) and Matt Axelson (Ben Foster) had been ambushed, and the mission was thrown into disarray. Under heavy fire and with their communications disrupted, the four men had to fight for their lives. As the title of the film suggests, most of them did not survive.

Film Review: Killer Joe (2011)

William Friedkin’s latest is a deeply unpleasant film about deeply unpleasant people. A tale of betrayal amongst trailers, it deals with the sort of people whose baseness comes less from a place of evil than a kind of banality bred from living somewhere where nothing ever happens. It’s a sleazy and scuzzy slice of misanthropy that sees a group of grotesques get in over their heads, and then suffer the horrific consequences of their actions. In short, it’s a Hell of a lot of fun.