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It all keeps coming back to the BOOK (of Eli)
August 17th, 2010
Right now, Inception and The Book of Eli are battling in my mind for best film of the year. We’ve already visited the post-apocalyptic vision by screenwriter Gary Whitta and the directors Hughes with a multi-part review on this site, and even got to comment on Denzel Washington’s portrayal of biblical manhood (plus a few [...]
Pass the SALT…
August 4th, 2010
SALT is an enjoyable film, and though not on par with recent Bourne and Bond entries, it is a tight – if not plausible – thriller on par with the equally plot-holed but gripping TAKEN, along with some of the flavor of Harrison Ford’s FUGITIVE remake.
It’s also commendable for giving us a trailer which clips [...]
HURT LOCKER is the Bomb…
June 10th, 2010
“Sometimes you get to a point in life where you only love a few things, maybe even just one.”
Those haunting words in The Hurt Locker sum up a spellbinding, seat-gripping drama of life that has far-reaching application beyond laborers in an Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit. Embedded Journalist Mark Boal, who spent time with real EOD [...]