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BLINK TWICE MOVIE REVIEW
It’s hard to know how to market a film that depends on a giant twist without spoiling the surprise. It definitely feels like Blink Twice is one of those, where the trailers make it look like some kind of slasher on an island with beautiful people. But what if I told you that Chris, Frank, Marco, and Wright ALL gave this some of the most positive reviews of any movie this year? The story follows Frida (Naomi Ackie) who is kinda obsessed with this once me-too’d billionaire tech bro named Slater King (Channing Tatum) who is currently doing the apology tour. Seemingly contrite to his core, he has apparently left most of his previous shenanigans behind and largely lives on his private island out of the limelight. When Frida and her best friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) are catering a private event for Slater, Frida and the former bad-boy have a meet-cute, and the two girls get invited back to his island for relaxation, margaritas and ???. Once there, it truly seems like a slice of paradise. But after awhile it’s like, how long have we been here? We’ve all had that vacation ‘lost in time’ feeling but it seems much more pronounced here and eventually, disturbing. A solid crew of actors playing the other visitors to the island seem oblivious but something is very wrong. Check out your critics doing their level best not to spoil anything, until they announce full-spoiler review…because you kinda have to in order to discuss the dominant themes of Blink Twice which are considerably deeper and more interesting than they appear from the outside.
DIRECTED BY: Zoë Kravitz
STARRING: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Liz Caribel, Levon Hawke, Trew Mullen, Geena Davis, Kyle MacLachlan, Cris Costa, María Elena Olivares, Saul Williams, Tiffany Persons, Aaron Himelstein
YOUR REVIEWERS
Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)
Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.
Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)
By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.
“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”
Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)
Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.
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