Tag: The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
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How It Ends review – the end of the world is a bore in dull Netflix thriller
Theo James and Forest Whitaker give subpar performances in a frustratingly pedestrian tale of a mysterious catastropheOne thing you wouldn’t expect from the violent breakdown of society would be for it to be an utter bore. Yet that’s the big twist at the center of How It Ends, Netflix’s latest (alleged) action thriller. Even Earth’s…
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‘The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter’: Jody Hill & Danny McBride’s “Poor Man’s ‘Revenant’” – SXSW
Jody Hill and Danny McBride’s creative fusion has a brazenly hysterical, yet sincere way of showing the underbelly of men; guys who aspire to greatness, but through their flaws fall short as divorced fathers or misfits, from the Sundance hit that made them, The Foot Fist Way to their latest HBO comedy series Vice Principals.…
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Deadline Studio at SXSW 2018 – Day 2 – John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Danny McBride, Olivia Wilde, & More
The Deadline Studio is making its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, opening its doors to the most riveting and groundbreaking talent at the 25th edition of the fest, running March 9-17, in Austin, Texas. Actors, directors and producers – from film and television – stopping by the Deadline Studio for portraits and video interviews…
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‘The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter’ Review: Josh Brolin is Hilarious in Forgettable Netflix Comedy — SXSW 2018
In two television series (“Eastbound & Down” and “Vice Principals”) and two feature films (“The Foot Fist Way” and “Observe and Report”), writer/director Jody Hill and writer/star Danny McBride have created a devastatingly funny and increasingly relevant commentary on the curse of toxic masculinity. The Hill/McBride “hero” is, in most cases, a retrograde blowhard, dumb…
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SXSW Film Review: ‘The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter’
Although “The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter” comes to us from director Jody Hill and actor/co-writer Danny McBride, the masterminds behind the exuberantly surly HBO sitcoms “Eastbound and Down” and “Vice Principals,” far too much of this wildly uneven Netflix-bound comedy (scheduled to launch July 6) plays less like a transgressive farce than an…