Patrick Hughes — Love (acrylic on paperboard, 2020)
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Patrick Hughes (British, b. 1939), Jigsaw Puzzle, c.1962. Oil on multiple pieces of cut plywood board, 20 x 24 in.
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'The Expendables 3' - A Franchise Killer
WRITER’S NOTE: This review was written in 2014.
I was really looking forward to the third “Expendables” movie ever since I saw the teaser trailer which was scored to the theme for “Bridge on the River Kwai.” None of the films in this franchise will ever be mistaken for high art, but they bring about a much-needed nostalgia workout which many of us have for the action movies from the 1980’s.…
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) dir. Patrick Hughes.
7.3/10
I would not recommend this movie to my friends.
I would not rewatch this movie.
omg Umbrella Academy's Luther.
I like the first movie more.
Aristotle is such a dramatic character.
Lmao at the Secret.
LOL I don't know anyone who talks like Sonia.
Lul at I'm not wearing a sports bra.
Morgan Freeman being dad is fun. besides the fact that his character sucks.
My god, mom's death is terrible.
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Movie Review | The Expendables 3 (Hughes, 2014)
It seems like at most with this series you’ll get two or three actors actually doing some acting. In the first, it was Dolph, Mickey Rourke and maybe Eric Roberts. In the second, it was Van Damme and maybe Dolph again. This time it’s Wesley Snipes and Mel Gibson. Snipes seems to be having the most fun and brings some Simon Phoenix energy to this, and while Gibson is probably operating at 20% here, there are enough flashes of that psycho Martin Riggs energy to put him above everyone except Snipes. I guess if I’m feeling generous, I’ll concede that Kelsey Grammer and Antonio Banderas, whatever he was doing, were at least awake. Otherwise, this lacks even the bare minimum of team chemistry of the first two as the rest of the cast have nothing to do.
Meaning that this fails even on the lowest thrill of recognizing your favourite action stars. The callback one liners are even more leaden this time around, but the bigger miscalculation is placing the emotional crux of the movie on the need to rescue a bunch of new characters, none of whom are given any personality. Anyway, I assume this is Stallone’s version of whatever scheme Adam Sandler is running with Happy Madison in giving his friends jobs and funneling money to the Caymans or whatever. (I assume that’s the reason Randy Couture continues to be in these. I assume he’s cheap enough to hire, and nobody will care if he’s killed off so there’s no reason to get rid of him.) I guess it’s nice he didn’t make any of them work too hard, although it’s funny that he got Robert Davi for a single scene to do a shitty Eastern European accent and then disappear from the rest of the movie.
Also, back when they made better versions of these things in the ‘70s and ‘80s, they would at least be nominally colourful. Between the drab Bulgarian shooting locations, heavy use of CGI and drab colour scheme, I found this pretty blah to look at. I will say that there’s some pretty clean action in terms of shootouts, but the PG-13 rating ensures that it’s neutered, and the fight scenes especially are chopped to bits.
So yeah, this is bad, except for Snipes and Gibson.
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Patrick Hughes — Roundbow (archival pigment print on Somerset Satin 330gsm paper, 2018)
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