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Echoes: One Climber's Hard Road to Freedom

Nick Bullock and Paul Pritchard

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"As I sat cradling the man's head, with his blood and brains sticking to my hands, I heard a voice -...

Not Her Gargoyle (Not This Series Book 5)

Annie Nicholas

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Ruby is done with jerks, dead-end jobs, and eviction notices. Everyone else she knows is finding...

paranormal romance shifter adult romantic comedy humor

Mrs. Claus and the Trouble with Turkeys

Liz Ireland

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It’s year-round Christmas cheer in this creative and witty mystery series featuring a unique...

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 10

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Riley Adams leaves the CSI team in turmoil, as Catherine's leadership skills are called into...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The House (2017) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020 (Updated Sep 19, 2020)

The House (2017)

2017 | Comedy

5.7

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Not a better movie than 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘰, but by far a better analogy between crime-soaked gambling and the bloody baseball bat of capitalism - as unintentional as I'm sure the allusion is here. Given how much of a dead horse the target of whitebread suburbia is even well through twenty-five years ago now, I'll give this some freshness points in the way it portrays the quest for fair financial stability in lieu of absurdly-gouged education prices, big banks, etc. by the warping of the upper-middle-class into an entire demographic forced to confront their own morals when they're encouraged into private crime upon the abject failure of their own government by way of goofy dark comedy. Starts off like your routine bland improvy entry into the 'haha raunchy families' trend and progressively becomes more and more doused in blood, blunt trauma, property damage, and general chaos that throws moron policemen, corrupt officeholders, and the inherent violence of America's economic system into the fire in its wake. Plus it's brisk (for fucking once with this genre good Lord) and has a ton of laughs even though I believe it still seems generally uninterested in its own plot in addition to criminally underutilizing both Ferrell and Poehler's talents together as well. The bit with Nick Kroll at the end was fucking gut-bustingly hilarious.