The Rivals of Amziah King
Matthew McConaughey plays a bluegrass musician and beekeeper – folksy enough already? – in Andrew Patterson’s follow up to the great Vast of Night. It looks like The Rivals of Amziah King is going to be another of those Dallas Buyers Club McConaughey performances: hugely charming and borderline irritating, the wild-eyed maverick, Southern drawl, good with words, charismatic and so on. Patterson gets things going in a good ol’ boy vein, with McC’s Amziah King and his friends all arriving one by one by flatbed truck at an open air diner, where pretty waitresses serve hot food glistening out of the deep fat fryer and everyone knows everyone’s name. As King and co … Read more
