GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE MOVIE REVIEW

In this new Netflix super-stylized action-comedy from the writer/director of “Big Bad Wolves”, Karen Gillan is Sam. She’s a nigh-unstoppable super-assassin, working for a shadow cabinet of masters called The Firm. When she futzes up an assignment by losing a huge stash of money she was supposed to retrieve in order to save an innocent little girl, the company wants comeuppance, and they serve her up on a platter to some Russian mobsters that want to find out who killed the boss’s son. Fortunately she’s got a trio of “librarians” with a giant weapons stash on her side as well as her long-absent mother, who returns to help with mega-doses of over the top violence. This is colorful, cartoonish, crazy, and ALMOST all of our critics really dug it. Listen to Chris, Rae, Ben, and Jennifer hash it out.

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DIRECTED BY: Navot Papushado

STARRING: Karen Gillan, Freya Allan, Lena Headey, Carla Gugino, Chloe Coleman, Ralph Ineson, Adam Nagaitis, Michael Smiley, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Paul Giamatti, Samuel Anderson, Mai Duong Kieu, Ivan Kaye, Jack Bandeira, David Burnell IV

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, 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 paradise you see before you. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Lyrae Anderson (Screener Squad)

You can call me Rae. You can also call me a film lover. I’ll watch it all — small screen; big screen, and everything in between. I have attended and worked for Fantastic Fest and South by Southwest for many years. I married a film geek as well. While we don’t agree on everything, we agree on our love of movies.

 

 

 

 

Ben Glasthal (Highly Suspect Review, Screener Squad, Breakfast Pub, Unstabletop Gamers, Video and Audio Editor, Assistant Site Manager)

Born in Boston, then ending up in Dallas, Texas in the early 2000s, Ben has always had a passion for film. He started in film school not long after where he launched MovieReelizations.com where he still writes reviews to this day. He’s since moved to Austin where he has been also hopping on podcasts and both editing and shooting videos for One of Us. A fan of films from almost all genres, and many that predate him more than makes sense, he is anything if not eclectic in what he’s watching at any point. For the rest of his free time, he can be found biking, drinking craft beer, being an amateur photographer, and playing video games by himself or on Twitch.