The Social Network, directed by David “Fight Club” Fincher and written by Aaron “Sports Night” Sorkin, purports to be a slick behind-the-scenes account of the meteoric rise of everyone’s favorite social networking site, and it certainly is that: slick. My first warning: this film is about as likely to offer you the true story of [...]
Read More Aaron Sorkin, Andrew Garfield, biography, blu-ray, David Fincher, drama, DVD, History, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, PG-13, The Social Network, Trent Reznor, willSolitary Man is Michael Douglas’s ode to the aging man who fails to recognize that he is no longer the man he once was. He plays Ben Kalmen, a man who’s clinging to the past. He’s now divorced (Susan Sarandon plays his ex-wife, and although her role is small, she adds a lot to the [...]
Read More Avy Kaufman, blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, joyce, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Douglas, R, romance, Solitary Man, Susan SarandonFor those of you out there who fear that the end of the world is nigh, take heart–Armageddon will no doubt have its own little pleasures. Case in point: Zombieland, the latest entry in the celebrated zombie comedy sub-genre, bringing the joy back to zombie plague survival. Set about 2 months after a particularly virulent [...]
Read More Abigail Breslin, action, blu-ray, comedy, DVD, Emma Stone, horror, Jesse Eisenberg, R, Woody Harrelson, ZombielandAdventureland was written and directed by Greg Mottola, he who helmed the much-beloved Superbad, and I suspect people will want to see it because of that connection. But it’s not a broad and raunchy laughfest. Rather, it’s a modest, semi-autobiographical–albeit R-rated–comedy/drama about one of those transformative summers in a young person’s life. In this case [...]
Read More Adventureland, Bill Hader, comedy, David, drama, DVD, Greg Mottola, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, Martin Starr, R, romance, Ryan Reynolds