Archive for the Tag 'Jesse Eisenberg'

THE SOCIAL NETWORK – Reviewed by Will

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 [...]

SOLITARY MAN – Reviewed by Joyce

Solitary 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 [...]

ZOMBIELAND – Reviewed by Will

For 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 [...]

ADVENTURELAND – Reviewed by David

Adventureland 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 the [...]