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Make America Hate Again—Oh, Wait, We Never Stopped Review by Ken Burke Suburbicon (George...
View ArticleThe Square along with Short Takes on Thor: Ragnarok, Goodbye Christopher Robin
Variations on Illuminating the Darkness Reviews by Ken Burke The Square (Ruben Östlund)...
View ArticleLady Bird and Justice League
Conflict Resolutions Reviews by Ken Burke Lady Bird (Greta...
View ArticleCoco and Roman J. Israel, Esq.
“Baby, baby, baby, you’re out of time”The Rolling Stones, "Out of Time" (1966 Aftermath album, U.K.; 1967 Flowers album, U.S.) Reviews by Ken...
View ArticleThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
“Toto, I know we’re not in Kansas anymore after we crossed over into Missouri, but this sure doesn’t look like Branson. Damn it, I think we're lost again!”...
View ArticleDarkest Hour and Short Takes on Wonder Wheel
“Never Surrender!” (… At Least Until the Last Fire on the Beach Burns Out) Reviews by Ken Burke Before we get started, I’ll note that Film...
View ArticleStar Wars: The Last Jedi and The Disaster Artist
“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” (attributed to Rear Admiral David Farragut Rear Admiral David Farragut, said in some form during the brutal 1864...
View ArticleThe Shape of Water, Downsizing, Call Me by Your Name
Fables and Realities Reviews by Ken Burke Welcome to 2018 with Film Reviews from Two Guys in the Dark now early...
View ArticleMolly's Game, Short Takes on All the Money in the World
“Money can’t buy me love” (but it’s quite handy for achieving certain kinds of “respect”) Reviews by Ken Burke...
View ArticleThe Post and Short Takes on I, Tonya
Remembering The Good Old Days When Justice Actually Prevailed(sometimes ... maybe ...) Reviews by Ken Burke The...
View ArticlePhantom Thread and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
“You Get Too Soon Old And Too Late Smart” (kitchen-wall-wisdom on a little wooden plaque, available at Stuckey’s highway rest stops during my 1950s-‘60s early years in...
View ArticleThe Greatest Showman
“There’s a sucker born every minute”(maybe I’m one of them) Quoted phrase attributed (probably falsely) to P.T. Barnum...
View Article2017 Top 10 and Short Takes on The Commuter
Doubling Down on Death Comments and Review by Ken Burke For those of you who read my last posting (February 8, 2018) you know I was limited then to...
View ArticleBlack Panther
The Roaring, Soaring Panther Review by Ken Burke Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)...
View ArticleOur Academy Award Winner Predictions for the 2017 Films
Comments by Ken Burke Here’s the 7th annual Oscar-predictions-posting from Two Guys in the Dark (with some repeated intro statements from past postings because certain situations don’t change much from...
View ArticleA Fantastic Woman and Short Takes on Red Sparrow
Impactful Women Deliver Gold, Red (and some green) Reviews by Ken Burke A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio, 2017)“Executive Summary” (no spoilers):In...
View ArticleA Wrinkle in Time
“They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe” (from a...
View ArticleThe Death of Stalin and Short Takes on Annihilation
Hilarious History, Strange Sci-Fi Reviews by Ken Burke The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 2017) “Executive...
View ArticleUnsane and Short Takes on Crazy Right
“There is no path for happiness.” (at least not in these films) quote from Sawyer Valentini, Unsane (more about her just below)...
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