Violence, sex, corruption, nudity, two main characters who hate but somehow complete each other… Christmas? It’s a Shane Black movie alright.

by Thom Yee

The Nice Guys images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

Ask any movie fan about their favourite buddy movie and you’ll might get a wide variety of responses, from classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Midnight Cowboy to latter-day classics like Tango & Cash or White Men Can’t Jump to more recent movies like The Hangover or The Heat, but whatever your choice of favourite might be, there’s a pretty good chance one of the first movies thought of was Lethal Weapon.

In a lot of very important, very substantial ways, the Lethal Weapon movies set the standard for most of what we expect from the genre, even today when most tend to be comedies like 21 Jump Street or The Other Guys more often than straight-ahead action movies. Continue reading →