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Movie of the Day – Matchstick Men

March 10, 2012 Leave a comment

This is a movie where Nic Cage is controlled and focused, while still maintaining those lovely outburst in characters and mannerisms that we all love in his.
This is a Ridley Scott film, you know, the guy who made Alien, Gladiator and Blade Runner. It does feature aliens, Harrison Ford or Joaquin Phoenix giving the thumbs down signal.
Sam Rockwell is in this joint, making it about 100x cooler by proxy
Did I mention Nic Cage is in this movie not running around and yelling and punching people all the time?

Listen, I am just continuing off my heist film pick from yesterday and decided to give the long con and griffters a chance to have a movie post all to their own. Matchstick Men was a film that flew under the radar of the lot of film fans, even for a Ridley Scott picture. To my surprise, it is slick, well done con film that had solid acting and one of my favorite Nic Cage flicks. Can’t go wrong with Sam Rockwell being involved in a film that manages to be entertaining, humorous and emotional satisfying.

Movie of the Day – Choke

August 27, 2011 1 Comment

I love Chuck Palahniuk books, so when they decide to make a movie based on one of his book, I am intrigued. I love Sam Rockwell and when they cast him a lead role in a movie, I am going to watch. Combining the two into a film immediately means I am going to see it. If you haven’t read any Palahniuk books before, they have a certain satiric bite to them. Very dark comedy interspersed between these satiric looks on current society. They are fascinating reads and some of my favorite books. Choke, which movie is based on, is one of my favorite novels next to Invisible Monsters and Fight Club. The subject matter is dark in terms of what happens to the characters and how they interact with one another. It is a series of maladies and lies that plagues characters and it makes for interesting dark comedy situations. More fucked up observational humor and weirdness plague the book. So to take a book like Choke which is filled with sexual deviance and childhood trauma and make movie out of it might seem a bit difficult, but like all of Palahniuks works, there is this beautiful madness to be found in the work and the translation to film.

Movie of the Day – Moon

August 12, 2011 Leave a comment

So going back to the well of my love for Sci-Fi films, I had a lot to choose from. At a cursory glance, they were all big budget productions with massive special effects and wide scope. To my chagrin I didn’t feel like talking about a film whose sole purpose is space battles and exotic look aliens, rather I wanted something a bit more small in scale and offered up an intriguing story line to propel the movie. This is where Moon comes in, a science fiction drama that focuses on the story of an isolated worker and a slightly emotional robot as his source of companionship. Moon is an interesting film, one that picks a minimal setting of the lunar surface of the moon, but it feels bigger than it really it is. I will admit the movie piqued my interest with Sam Rockwell as the lead and it also doesn’t hurt that the movie is directed by Duncan Jones, who happens to be David Bowie’s son. By all accounts, this is about as true as science fiction films can get. One that doesn’t lose sight of the story and ditches the out of this world, intergalactic saga that so many films aim for.

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