![]() ![]() When the emotionally shattered white lady, who even looks a little like Mollie Tibbetts before grief transforms her into Lady Punisher, tries to get justice for her unimaginable loss she discovers that the American justice system is hopelessly biased against attractive, photogenic white women with heartbreaking personal stories and gorgeous, dead families. Riley just barely survives a drive-by where the killers’ Hispanic heritage is so cynically and exploitatively played up that they might as well be drinking tequila out of a sombrero while waving Mexican flags and singing the Mexican national anthem. Riley’s husband agrees to drive a getaway car for a small-time criminal out to rob a big-time Mexican crime boss and even though he backs out at the last minute, these monsters from south of the border nevertheless execute him, gangland-style, along with his adorable little daughter. You may want to end this whole “feminism" nonsense now that your greatest and most important goal has been realized. If you’ve ever wondered what a racist, reactionary exploitation movie vehicle for the star of 13 Going on 30 might look and feel like, look no further! Congratulations, ladies! You’ve now achieved full equality now that a woman has proven she’s just as equipped as a man to star in a movie where a revenge-crazed mass murderer grimly executes a sizable army of crudely stereotyped caricatures in righteous vengeance after their family was assassinated. Finally, a blood-splattered, hate-fueled vigilante power fantasy for people who shop at Yankee Candle! That’s equally true of Taken director Pierre Morel’s Peppermint, which is essentially Eli Roth’s Death Wish for soccer moms and Lifetime movie fanatics. That was the case with Eli Roth’s deplorable, achingly dull remake of Death Wish. But it’s also given me an excuse to hate-watch movies I know damn well have no chance of being good, let alone important or essential. The column has afforded me an opportunity to write about big, important new movies that are rocking the box-office and dominating cultural conversations, like Black Panther, The Last Jedi and The Avengers: Infinity War. It’s the Nathan Rabin’s Happy Cast-fueled column where I write about the latest and greatest in big cinematic releases. Needless to say, they didn't love the guy.Welcome to the latest entry in Scalding Hot Takes. He was adjoined to the Vatican, but he constantly opened his mouth in regard to some shady aspects of the world's largest religious organization. He was a prankster who was always trying to make people laugh, and always had a joke up his sleeve. Countless documents and books validate his position in the modern church. ![]() We don't know where you stand, but we'd rather see it as a Friedkin's tribute to a very strange man: Father Gabriele Amorth, the Italian priest who founded the International Association of Exorcists and was the Catholic Church's go-to in the case of modern possessions.įather Amorth was a real man, that's a no-brainer. ![]() Some call it tabloid trash, some say it belongs to a supercut for the Mondo Cane franchise, and some are still astounded by the film. However, William Friedkin, the director of the film, presented his argument for this discussion in the form of the 2017 documentary feature The Devil and Father Amorth. ![]()
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