‘How to Make a Killing’ review: Glen Powell’s murder comedy is funny as a corpse
NY Post
There are eight deaths in “How to Make a Killing.”
Seven are people and one is done-dirty source material. The blood. So much blood.
Writer-director John Patton Ford has misguidedly modernized “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” the classic Alec Guinness screen comedy that’s based on a 1907 British novel about an average Joe who discovers he’s part of an uber-rich family.
In the revamp, Mr. Everywhere Glen Powell plays conniving Becket Redfellow, a middle-class New Jersey tailor who hatches a plan of ruthless opportunism: Murder all his Manhattan kin and inherit their fortune.
Updates are fine for some stories. Not this one, though. Moving the action to a contemporary urban setting is akin to fitting a fairy with cement boots.
In Edwardian England, a jolly killing spree was a sublime canvas for wit, dark playfulness, class commentary and, most essentially, plausibility.
For all the buzz about Emerald Fennell’s provocative take on “Wuthering Heights,” the filmmaker wimped out.
The GoFundMe page for James Van Der Beek’s family surpassed $1 million in donations following the actor’s death.
James Van Der Beek, the beloved “Dawson’s Creek” actor, has died after battling colorectal cancer. He was 48.
Terrifying surveillance photos and videos of an armed person in a ski mask tampering with Nancy Guthrie’s home security camera on the morning she vanished were released by the FBI on Tuesday.
The chilling threat Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnappers made in their ransom note has been revealed as the search for Savannah Guthrie’s mom enters its 10th day.
The fiends who claim they have kidnapped Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy are demanding $6 million in bitcoin, a local TV station revealed.
Authorities addressed reports of a “possible ransom note” after Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie, went missing.
Macaulay Culkin is mourning the loss of his “Home Alone” mom, Catherine O’Hara, after her shocking death.