One of my favorite movies to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival was Seven Psychopaths, which was written and directed by Irish playwright-turned-filmmaker Martin McDonagh. �Beginning in the mid-1990s, McDonagh caused quite a stir in New York's theater world with his funny, macabre plays, �The Beauty Queen of Leenane, �A Behanding in Spokane and The Pillowman.�And in 2008, he turned heads in the film world with his debut feature, In Bruges, which he also wrote and directed. �(If you haven't seen that film, you should before CBS Films releases Seven Psychopaths on Oct. 12. It's a dark comic gem with genuine emotional depth about two hit men who go on the lam when a job goes wrong.
Seven Psychopaths finds McDonagh in Quentin Tarantino territory, and dare I say, the Pulp Fiction director should watch his back. (By the way, the two have never met.) McDonagh has a stylish way with violence ? there's an exploding head scene in the movie that rocked my world ? he structures his films to move like sleek sports cars, and his black wit is sharper than QT's. (Yes, I did just assert that.) �Check out the trailer below for a riff on Gandhi's "an eye for an eye" quote that, thanks to Sam Rockwell's delivery, makes me laugh every time I hear it.
In Seven Psychopaths, Rockwell plays a struggling smart-ass actor who, with his non-violent partner-in-crime (Christopher Walken), does a bit of dog-napping to make ends meet. The fun begins when he makes off with the Shih Tzu of a cold-blooded gangster (Woody Harrelson) and implicates his blocked screenwriter friend (Colin Farrell), who happens to be working on a script identical to the film's title. �(By…
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