The Foxy Film Fan

Spree  is a horror comedy with a simple premise: a driver for Spree (a fictional ride-share service similar to Uber or Lyft) is plagued with the desire for internet fame. He spends his free time streaming video games, making mediocre electronic music, and attempting to leech off of the fame of a friend. His entire life revolves around the unobtainable allure of going viral. One day he decides he's going to do whatever it takes to force the world to pay attention to him. Joe Keery from Stranger Things  is the driving force of the film. His greasy disheveled look and overeager neediness make for a fascinating watch from start to finish, and he's remarkably believable as a socially inept young man scrambling for the limelight. If anyone else was cast as Kurt the movie simply wouldn't be any good, because in the slower dull moments of the movie it's truly Keery's performance that kept me watching. Most of the fun in Spree  comes from the found footage style which it rew...

Despite the abundance of superhero movies, it's been a long time since we've had something as violent and fun as Birds of Prey . It feels as though Marvel and DC movies are so wrapped up in maintaining their own lore and reaching the next beat in the plot that they've forgotten the most important part about superhero movies - fun. Admittedly, I've never really been a superhero movie person. I had fun with Guardians of the Galaxy , I liked Watchmen  in all its sad introspective existential dread, Joker  made me cry a lot about the plight of those of us who struggle with mental illness, and I'm excited to see Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Colin Farrell, and Paul Dano all in the new Batman movie. Outside of that, I have the tendency to get bored during most superhero movies. I either hit a wall where the action is mind-numbing or I feel like I already know what's going to happen next and I'm just waiting to be proven right. Birds of Prey  is different. A...