There are several questions you might ask yourself while watching Play Dirty: Why is it that streaming services continue to assemble name casts and throw tens of millions at projects that are synthetic versions of movies we’ve seen too many times to count? Why do those movies always look so flat? Why does Amazon Prime’s blustery action-thriller feel like something …
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By the time we lay eyes on the tenth or eleventh full-sized booze bottle tucked into the various nooks and crannies of Hank Thompson’s (Austin Butler) Lower East Side apartment, there’s no question this guy has problems. A generally directionless personality, a seriously scarred-up knee, and recurring nightmares of a vicious car crash that keep him GASP waking up in …
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“Honey Don’t!” is a smutty desert mystery in which the detective, Honey O’Donohue (Margaret Qualley), never gets around to solving the central crime. She’s too busy seducing women and swatting down randy men. I’d call the opening murder a red herring except it’s really more like a fish left to cook in the blinding Bakersfield sun. The second film co-written …
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