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Locke (2013)
Tom Hardy is inarguably a better actor than Frank Grillo. And yet, take both of them and put them in a car, answering phone calls for a whole movie, and I'll be damned if I didn't like Grillo's film (Wheelman) a lot more. Wheelman simply has a better script that uses the limitations of the film's concept much more creatively. If it weren't for Hardy's smooth-like-butter Welsh accent here, I'd give this a pass. More here.
The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Like Locke, this one is another case of a film more interested in the techniques of filming than in actually saying anything original or substantive. It never actually even dives into what "the girlfriend experience" is, or what the ramifications are for the girl. Also, it's a movie about people paying for sex with Sasha Grey, and it skips all the sex scenes and is surprisingly prudish. More here.
The Longest Day (1962)
Coming into the period leading up to Memorial Day in the US, so I've got a bunch of War films slated. One of the MOST war films here, a sweeping epic that is honestly just too much for a film and works better as Band of Brothers, imho. The relative lack of score and dated war effects and sound led to this being pretty sleep-inducing in the middle, but there is a lot to recommend it if you can power through. Those couple beers and plate of tacos didn't help, I'm sure. More here.
Tom Hardy is inarguably a better actor than Frank Grillo. And yet, take both of them and put them in a car, answering phone calls for a whole movie, and I'll be damned if I didn't like Grillo's film (Wheelman) a lot more. Wheelman simply has a better script that uses the limitations of the film's concept much more creatively. If it weren't for Hardy's smooth-like-butter Welsh accent here, I'd give this a pass. More here.
The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Like Locke, this one is another case of a film more interested in the techniques of filming than in actually saying anything original or substantive. It never actually even dives into what "the girlfriend experience" is, or what the ramifications are for the girl. Also, it's a movie about people paying for sex with Sasha Grey, and it skips all the sex scenes and is surprisingly prudish. More here.
The Longest Day (1962)
Coming into the period leading up to Memorial Day in the US, so I've got a bunch of War films slated. One of the MOST war films here, a sweeping epic that is honestly just too much for a film and works better as Band of Brothers, imho. The relative lack of score and dated war effects and sound led to this being pretty sleep-inducing in the middle, but there is a lot to recommend it if you can power through. Those couple beers and plate of tacos didn't help, I'm sure. More here.