Every once in a while something really astonishing and fresh comes along and Thunder Road is both astonishing and fresh. It blew my mind! Jim Cummings deserves every accolade and more for this wonderful little micro-budget indie film. I'm a sucker for a good movie about mental illness. If you add in an element about parent/child bonds, family, or parenting alone then you've got me and I'll watch that movie. Thunder Road tackles loss, addiction, mental illness, masculinity, family bonds, and the stress of being a single-working parent, and yet somehow is a hilarious comedy. And it does all this without ever laughing at Officer Jim's mental breakdown. This film is filled with earnest love and pain and it balances all the feels and tackles tricky issues effortlessly. This is not a cringe comedy, it's all heart and soul. 5/5 MUST SEE! |
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The Seven Five is a documentary film about two corrupt cops running amok in New York's 75th Precinct, once considered the most dangerous precinct in the Unites States. Mike "The Cop" Dowd and Kenny Eurell led a gang of crooked cops during the crack cocaine years of the 1980s and 1990s. They eventually got caught but a plan to get them out of the country while out on bail leads Eurell to turn on Dowd, sending Dowd to prison for 12 years (in 1992). Eurell never served a day. This all led to the 1992 Mollen Commission's investigation into police corruption in the New York Police Department at which Dowd testified. This is the kind of story that could easily be made into some kind of Scorsese/Johnny Depp mobster thing. It's the story we've all seen, but better. This is a gritty and raw film that Dowd and Eurell actively participate along with many of their accomplices, criminals and cops alike, as talking heads recounting their version of events. 4/5 |
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