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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

#InsidetheBucket Podcast #109

This week's episode of Inside the Bucket is online! Revel in the digital mastery! Inside the Bucket begins 2017 full of greasy, ballsy attitude! Join us as we bring you all this week's movie and television news and reviews from our website SANDWICHJOHNFILMS.COM . Matt is joined by Brandon, as the duo review four films this week. First up is Director Martin Scorsese's Catholic epic Silence , then the boys journey to Hell with The Bye Bye Man . The show wraps up with reviews of Ben Affleck's gangster-piece Live By Night , and a much kinder review of La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. We encourage you to participate in mailbag, as well as our Open Forum Friday, which is your chance to get in our business about running a passion project like our trainwreck. Please email us at Comments@SandwichJohnFilms.com with any thoughts you have about our show. Be warned: Inside the Bucket is an EXPLICIT PODCAST. We tend to say controversial things and c

Movie Review: #LiveByNight

A Prohibition-era gangster battles other organized crime bosses while trying to protect his burgeoning business and family. Review by Matt Cummings If the dozens of trailers for Live By Night convinced you of its supposed merits, you weren't alone. I arrived my screening ready to pin a medal on it and anoint it as the new Godfather , a tall order in hindsight. But it's just another passable but utterly forgettable tale, infused with too many characters who don't have time to shine beyond their fractured existences, and led by an anti-hero who really isn't one. As Prohibition Chicago shudders under the weight of a monumental gangster blood bath, the tough-minded but opportunistic Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck) has other plans: he wants the hardheaded Emma (Sienna Miller) who's currently dating the much older mob boss Albert White (Robert Glenister) and the chance to merely rob banks and make his money without interference from the real gangs. But when he&#