Excelsior! Silver Linings Playbook Leaves Some Cheering, Others Jeering
Director David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, at first glance, may seem to be your average, run of the mill chick flick rom-com. This will, undoubtedly, send most of the men out there running,...
View ArticleWriter/director Andrew Dominik hopes to be Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik‘s film adaptation of “Cogan’s Trade” is set in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, against the Hurricane Katrina ravaged back streets of Louisiana. The opening title...
View ArticleIs Tom Cruise a reach as Jack Reacher?
Fans of the Jack Reacher series by novelist Lee Child were cheering and jeering last night at a screening of the new Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise. Reacher, an ex-Army military police officer,...
View ArticleWarm Bodies and mmmmm … brains…
Warm Bodies is not your sister’s/girlfriend’s Twilight. Although, at first blush, the similarities between the two films seem easy-pickens for those not in the know. I’ve therefore braced myself for...
View ArticlePaint It Black with Kevin Bacon in Stir of Echoes
“You’re awake now, Daddy.” Tom and Maggie have just finished moving their growing family into a new house in a working class Chicago neighborhood. Musician-turned-telephone lineman, Tom, asks his...
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