Blood for Dust
Sometimes you like something and you’re not entirely sure why. Case in point: Blood for Dust, a 1990s style “who’s zooming who?” thriller in which people die in hails of bullets, bad guys abound and cases of money are swapped for white powder in remote locations while stiff-legged men with guns stand about ready to shoot. It is very familiar. And yet. The two central performances help a lot. First up, Scoot McNairy, who I’ve enjoyed watching ever since he starred in Gareth Edwards’s feature debut, 2010’s Monsters, a smart reworking of 1930s screwball comedy It Happened One Night as sci-fi. Underused almost ever since, he proves himself again here, his dustbowl-lean features … Read more