Drama – Deep Sand

Fair Game – A Movie Review

December 14, 2010December 13, 2010 John Biopic, Doug Liman, Drama, Liraz Charchi, Naomi Watts, Nicholas Sadler, Noah Emmerich, Sean Penn, Thriller

As a covert officer in the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division, Valerie Plame leads an investigation into the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Valerie’s husband, diplomat Joe Wilson, is drawn into the investigation to substantiate an alleged sale of enriched uranium from Niger. But when the administration ignores his findings and uses the issue to support the call to war, Joe writes a New York Times editorial outlining his conclusions and ignites a firestorm of controversy. This is well acted, tightly written and directed with straight-forward finesse making it one of the finest films of the year.

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The Social Network – A Movie Review

December 13, 2010December 13, 2010 John Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Biopic, David Fincher, Drama, Jesse Eisenberg, Joseph Mazzello, Justin Timberlake

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. A movie well worth seeing.

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It’s Kind of a Funny Story

November 6, 2010November 16, 2010 John Adaptation, Anna Boden, Comedy, Drama, Emma Roberts, Jim Gaffigan, Keir Gilchrist, Lauren Graham, Ryan Fleck, Viola Davis

What’s a 16-year-old boy doing playing music and table tennis with adult psychiatric patients – on a school day? It’s kind of a funny story… It’s @5:00 AM on a Sunday in Brooklyn. Craig Gilner is bicycling up to the entrance of a mental health clinic; this bright 16-year-old is stressed out from the demands of being a teenager. Before his parents and younger sister are even awake, Craig checks himself into Argenon Hospital and is admitted by a psychiatrist. But the youth ward is temporarily closed – so he finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby, soon becomes both Craig’s mentor and protege.

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Town, The – A Movie Review

September 18, 2010 John Action, Ben Affleck, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper, Crime, Drama, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite, Rebecca Hall, Titus Welliver

Doug MacRay is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage–bank manager, Claire Keesey. Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.

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The Kids are All Right – A Movie Review

August 1, 2010August 1, 2010 John Annette Bening, Drama, Josh Hutchersonkn, Julianne Moore, LGBT, Lisa Cholodenko, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska

Two teenaged children conceived by artificial insemination get the notion to seek out their birth father and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers have built for them. Once the donor is found, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re-defined, and then re-re-defined. This was an excellent movie which I highly recommend with some caveats.

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