KATE MOVIE REVIEW

It’s not easy to be an unstoppable female assassin who is thinking about getting out of the business only to have to deal with killing more people than ever before. At least, it is this year. I mean, there’s been a lot of competition. Netflix’s “Kate” drops the tongue-in-cheek jokiness of several of this year’s other somewhat similar entries in the sub-genre (“Jolt”, “Gunpowder Milkshake”, “The Protege”) as Mary Elizabeth Winstead assumes more of the straight-ahead brutal kills and action choreography of something like “Nobody” or “John Wick”. Which is NOT to say new ground is tread here either. Her character finds that someone has fatally poisoned her and like in the noir classic “D.O.A.”, is bent on finding out who did it and getting revenge before her time runs out. Only here, killing almost everyone she meets along the way. Except for the niece of a powerful Yakuza head who she drags along with her for the ride. Chris, Jordan, Rose, and Tessa put in their support for this film and for Winstead to play Ripley’s daughter in this by the numbers but very well made thriller.

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DIRECTED BY: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

STARRING: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Amelia Crouch, Ava Caryofyllis, Gemma Brooke Allen, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi, Kazuya Tanabe

 

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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.

 

 

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter