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New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: Mile 22 Shoots a Lot of Heads But Misses Most of Its Marks

“Evil exists, and the great game continues.” This is the mantra of James Silva (Mark Wahlberg), the grizzled, quip-happy leader of Ghost Branch, a secret paramilitary unit…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: Mile 22 Shoots a Lot of Heads But Misses Most of Its Marks”

From the time she was a teen, photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield has been obsessed with wealth, and the presentation of it, in American life. In her…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: Generation Wealth Takes a Shaky But Wrenching View of Hyper-Wealth”

To most people, Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a normal girl in high school. I say normal, because it’s the 1990s and closeted LGBTQ people are essentially…… Read more “New from Danielle Solzman on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post Tackles Conversion Therapy Through an Early-’90s Lens”

In July, Disney fired “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn after prominent alt-right personality Mike Cernovich re-surfaced old tweets of his dating back to 2008. Cernovich’s…… Read more “VIDEO: Consequence of Sound’s Clint Worthington featured on NBC News opinion piece to discuss the James Gunn dismissal”

Portland-based cartoonist John Callahan was a self-professed detractor of political correctness – a recovering alcoholic who became quadriplegic as the result of a drunk driving accident, and…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot Takes a Wry Look at Recovery”

We’ve already talked about the best movies and TV series of the year here at CoS, but whenever this bi-annual time of year rolls around, we find ourselves…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: The Top 25 Performances of 2018 (So Far)”

The world of a Taylor Sheridan-scripted film is no paradise: it’s an angry, grim hellscape filled with nihilistic characters forged by tragedy into amoral instruments of extrajudicial…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado Has the Blood But Not the Brains of the Original”

When director Stephen Hopkins’ gritty urban thriller Judgment Night came out in 1993, it was released to mixed reviews and a modest box office take ($21 million…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Stephen Hopkins on Judgment Night, Urban Hellscapes, and ’90s Chicago”

Since the 2016 election, American cinema (like so many citizens) has been struggling to understand how we got here, and how we move forward. Documentaries have bore…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: The King Muddles Its Memories of the Past By Looking to the Present”

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” In 2013, The Wall Street Journal published an extraordinary human interest piece…… Read more “New from Clint Worthington on Consequence of Sound: Film Review: Tag Finds Its Stars Keeping Young By Playing Together”