Christopher Nolan blows our minds and gives us the best film of the year so far.
Jul 182010
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Winter’s Bone
Directed by Debra Granik
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
Rated R for some drug content, language and violent content
Late in Winter’s Bone a boy is briefly shown rolling on a skateboard on a piece of plywood. He scoots forwards and backwards as far as the limited area of the plywood will allow, content to experience a skateboard on a 4 foot by 8 foot rectangle. In the same way, the characters in wander through their Missouri farming community, not quite aware of the limitations their environment has placed on them. Meth addiction has become as familiar and integral to coping with the hardships of farming life as folk music was one hundred years ago. …Continue reading this entry
May 102010
Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle, not yet getting too old for this shit.
Iron Man 2
Directed by Jon Favreau
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle
Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some language
Typically, in a superhero’s second movie, he is given multiple villains to combat, generally amping up whatever worked in the first one. Writer Justin Theroux and director Jon Favreau favor a slightly more subtle approach to their villain-piling. The multiple opposing forces come in many forms. Ivan Vanko’s Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) and his revenge-minded scheme to copy Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) Iron Man technology for his own super exoskeleton serve as the traditional comic book villain, but the U.S. …Continue reading this entry
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