The Rundown (2003) ***
So here we are cruising along again with The Rock—this time in the jungles of Brazil—and who do we run into? Christopher Walken! As the villain! It’s like finding a new bike under the Christmas tree.
Hollywoodland (2006) ***
TV’s Superman is dead. Was it suicide or murder? Adrien Brody unconvincing as a tough-guy shamus, but Ben Affleck eerily right as the modestly talented prettyboy George Reeves. Some good moments.
Manhunter (1986) ***
Stylish 80’s serial-killer procedural is the first Hannibal Lecter movie, and unmistakably Michael Mann. Way cool. Highlight of William Petersen’s film career, on the road to television’s “CSI.”
The Fall (2006) **
Imagine “The Princess Bride” gone terribly, terribly wrong. Here the lovelorn storyteller puts a poor little girl’s emotions through the wringer as he works out his issues. Shame on him, no?
The Edge of Heaven (2007) ****
The heart, as they say, is a lonely hunter. This is a movie on that theme, and about what happens among ordinary Turks and Germans, parents and children, lovers. Mysterious and thought-provoking.
Friday, October 16, 2009
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