Well, here we are, the big 2020. Hopefully it is a wonderful year for everyone. I will do my best to at least make sure you get to see some great films!
Thank you to everyone who was able to make it for our showing of Krampus last month, we had a nice turnout, some fun conversation and as always, some great treats.
Now, on to our next film. To kick off the new year, I've decided to show Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky.
Logan Lucky is a 2017 American heist comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh, based on the debut screenplay of Rebecca Blunt. Soderbergh came out of retirement to direct the film, and to distribute it independently through his own company. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank, Katherine Waterston and Sebastian Stan, and follows the Logan family, who plan to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway and must avoid getting caught by the FBI. The film holds a 92% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Matt Zoller Seitz, writing for Rogerebert.com gave the film 3.5/4 stars saying this in his review, "Soderbergh is one of the reigning masters of the heist picture: he did the Ocean's Eleven remake and its two sequels, plus Out of Sight and The Underneath. This one's about a bunch of good ol' boys trying to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina. The movie is put together with the no-fuss confidence of Soderbergh's best entertainments, staging comedic banter and suspense sequences with equal assurance, even playing sly perception games with the audience by making you wonder how smart or dumb the character (and the movie) actually are. Soderbergh directs the script with his characteristic smoothness, moving through the story so deftly that you don't realize you've already gone from point A to point B until you're already en route to point C. There's no wasted motion. Everything happens as it does for a reason. A lot of times you have no idea what you're looking at or why it's important until Soderbergh moves a bit to the left or shifts focus to make you go "Aha!" There are few working directors who still know how to make a film this way. Soderbergh is one of them."
We will be meeting Thursday, Jan. 16th at 6:15pm.
I hope you are able to make it out to this wonderfully fun film!
Here's the trailer:
