REVIEW: Blue Moon

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon opens on a note so unexpectedly forlorn that it reverberates through everything that follows.

A classic lounge number drifts over a rain-sheened alley. Into this slumps a diminutive man — hat slipping, thinning combover exposed, body folding like a cigarette collapsing in ash.…

The Nice Guys is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with a fun ’70s retrofit

 

The Nice Guys is your standard Shane Black neo-noir buddy comedy with a ’70s retrofit but that’s no bad thing.

The film is a wild and seedy ride from the top of the derelict Hollywood sign, through — occasionally literally — the deluxe shag pads of Beverly Hills, and all the way down through the mean streets of L.A.