Pocket smoovie review plus#

Halfway through, the narrative takes a twisted turn and one realizes that Slattery never figured out the tone. As hard as it may be to believe with a cast of actors who almost always bring something interesting to their work (and the quality Slattery has delivered not only in front of but behind the camera on his AMC hit), this is a flat, boring affair. Betting on horses, drinking the night away across the street from your house, dealing with gossip-it’s just life in God’s Pocket.Īnd life in God’s Pocket is dull. Bird owes Mickey money but he owes more dangerous guys like Sal ( Domenick Lombardozzi) too. While she’s encouraging people like Shellburn to get to the bottom of the mystery, Mickey is trying to scrape together the funds to pay for Leon’s funeral to the slimy Smilin’ Jack Moran ( Eddie Marsan). The construction workers cover up the manslaughter, disguising it as an accident but Jeanie suspects something is off about her son’s death.

Jeanie’s son Leon ( Caleb Landry Jones) is a typical young tough guy who works on a construction site and mouths off to the wrong guy, who cracks him in the back of the head, killing him. But he’s deep in the community, married to Jeanie ( Christina Hendricks) and friends with a local named Bird ( John Turturro). Hoffman plays Mickey Scarpato, another outsider like Shellburn who just doesn’t get the people of God’s Pocket, maaaaan. And a flat, beige color palette shot with dull, lifeless cinematography from the often-great Lance Acord doesn't help. Time’s a bitch.' Or 'It’s getting cold.' 'Yeah, it’s a cold world.' I don’t need to tell you that no one speaks like this in the real world and it’s the kind of overwritten dialogue that may work fine on the page in Dexter’s novel but feels false on the big screen, especially in a project that needed either stark realism or the kind of black comedy approach that the Coens bring to their films-not the gray area in between. This is one of those odd pieces of work in which characters will say things like 'Nothing works against you like time. 'Whatever they are is what they are.' One of many problems with the script of 'God’s Pocket' by Slattery and Alex Metcalf is that it presents an alcoholic, hack writer in Shellburn but feels like it let the character write the dialogue. (The slightly lower-cost standard version is for phones only.) To achieve the same with a Steadicam, you'll need to spend around US$150 for the Steadicam Smoothee, and another $20-30 on accessory mounts.Slattery’s directorial debut opens with a bit of overwritten columnist prose from writer Richard Shellburn ( Richard Jenkins) about the 'simple men' who live in God’s Pocket, a blue-collar community of hard drinkers, gambling addicts, tough workers, and the women who love them.

Pocket smoovie review plus#

And unlike that model, which can stabilize only GoPro cameras, the Smoovie Plus variant will stabilize most smartphones and GoPros as well. Available right now for as little as £11 (£12 for the Plus version) - that's about US$16 (US$17 for the Plus version) at current exchange rates - the Smoovie is just half the price of Steadicam's most affordable (and rather less compact) unit, the Steadicam Curve. The just-launched Smoovie is a handheld stabilizer with an exceptionally compact size, and an equally minimal pricetag. Want to take the shakes out of your smartphone or GoPro videos, but don't want to spend a fortune and lug around a big, heavy stabilizing rig to do it? Well, the answer just might have appeared on Kickstarter yesterday, and unlike many crowdsourced products, you won't have to hand over a large chunk of cash in the hopes, one day, of receiving the product you'd pay for.