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Fantastic Fest 2018: Slut in a Good Way

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In director Sophie Lorain’s Slut in a Good Way, the recently heartbroken Charlotte, along with friends Megan and Aube, find seasonal work at a local department store. There, they run headlong into romantic entanglements and the double-standard applied to sexually active women.

The girls seek to regain their power by abstaining from all romance, and what follows is an incredibly funny, poignant and joyous look at their lives and loves (or lack thereof).

Lorain takes an intimate, casual story by Catherine Léger and executes it with a careful, flawless stagecraft. The blocking of the actors feels amazingly purposeful and exact, with Lorain’s camera moving perfectly to accommodate the next speaker, always where it needs to be. I found an immediate trust there. If the frame moved, I knew Lorain was leading me somewhere important to the scene. The sense of purposeful movement allayed my fears that this might be an aimless tone piece about young love.

Initially, I worried this level of obvious planning might cause the scenes to lose some spark of life, some spontaneity, since the actors always appear in just the right position to complete the frame. Instead, there is a sense that the filmmaker truly loves this story, knows where it’s going, and is caring for it. The film is heavy with conversations, as various groups navigate the intersections of workplace drama and young love, and the visual interest is sustained marvelously. Lorain creates black and white tableaus of teen life both easy to follow and gorgeous to view.

Slut in a Good Way was both funny and heartfelt, shot in a soft and dreamlike black and white. There are subtle and funny performances from Marguerite Bouchard, Romane Denis, Rose Adam, and the entire ensemble cast. Though it felt against type for the ‘neck-stabbing genre’ weirdness of Fantastic Fest, it was a welcome spot of joy the day I saw it. This was easily among the best I watched all week.

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The Les Files With John C McGinley

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In the studio today, Les gets to talk to legendary actor John C. McGinley who’s been a force on the stage and the screen. Hollywood has him on speed dial to play certain iconic roles that move the story such as Tom Card in Burn Notice, Brian Kelton on Chicago PD. Now the showrunners of the beloved cop sitcom Brooklyn 99 have brought him in to play Head to the Patrolman’s Union and lover of all things Billy Joel, Frank O’Sullivan. This new character is the antagonist for the final season of Brooklyn 99 and he’s a cross between Archie Bunker and Yosemite Sam.

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Transformers Rise Of The Beast will definitely be a movie I’m going to watch repeatedly.

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This was an epic movie overall. What else can I say without giving spoilers? Not a lot else, unfortunately, but I will try. So the start was interesting as it takes place in 1994, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts takes the audience on a globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduces a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals –  to join them as allies in the existing battle for Earth. There are quite a few hidden gems to look for. The humor in this one was excellent definitely the 90s were everywhere in this movie.


The action was awesome as a Transformers movie should be and it does have a decent storyline. The film also has Great references to the older Transformer properties as well. As a major fan of the beast war series, it was awesome to see that version of the universe brought to the big screen. However, there were some moments of eh, been done many times. But just a couple despite being another Transformers movie. but this one did give more life to the series for me to be intrigued to see where it goes. The movie is a good 2 hours long so it goes at a good pace.


But with that being the only bad thing, in my opinion, it is a great theater movie. I think it added some freshness to the franchise. That with a nice blend of the 90s nostalgia. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. This is Chris, an honest review writer until the next movie, see you next time.

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Justice League: Warworld Official Trailer

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Until now, the Justice League has been a loose association of superpowered individuals. But when they are swept away to War World, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the others must somehow unite to form an unbeatable resistance able to lead an entire planet to freedom.

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