Wednesday Night is Movie Night!by DPeezy on May 15th, 2008 at 5:02 am |
Since ABC moved LOST to Thursday nights, Wednesday night TV has become a barren wasteland of boring reality/results shows. Fortunately for us less braindead types, we have to gift of movies to entertain.
Watched Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead tonight. Directed by Sidney Lumet, who has got to be around 100, and starring the great Philip Seymour Hoffman, Albert Finney, Ethan Hawke, and the supremely gorgeous Marisa Tomei (I’m sure she’s ‘talented’ as well), it was one of the best reviewed movies of 2007. Came out on DVD/Bluray a month ago and I finally got around to it.
Verdict: Supremely entertaining, in an emotional/brutal/bleak/50-car-pileup sort of way. High tension throughout; there is not a single moment that drags. To reveal any of the plot (other than what you may see in the trailer) would be criminal. As Roger Ebert wrote: “[it] is such a superb crime melodrama that I almost want to leave it at that. To just stop writing right now and advise you to go out and see it as soon as you can.”
[Go. Now!]
And in keeping with iBC rules, here are a few trades that, market-conditions willing, I will be looking to enter tomorrow:
this movie looks interesting. i’ll have to check it out. I am an albert finney fan. Two for the Road is a great Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn movie, also directed by my favorite director, Stanley Donen
May 15th, 2008 at 8:06 amI like Finney as well… a very underrated actor, imo. He had a big role in one of my favorite movies, the Coen brothers’ Miller’s Crossing. He was also great in Under the Volcano, and I still think his Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) is the best one out there.
Soccer, on the other hand, continues to suck outside of “9 and under” games where kids surround the ball in packs, like loyal electrons circling an atomic nucleus.
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Aside — Finished the book, Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men two days ago, and the movie came in the Netflix mail just last night… completely uncoordinated by me (I had put the movie on the list months ago, and only bought the book last week). Spooky, no?
May 15th, 2008 at 9:15 amFinney was great in Miller’s Crossing. Also liked him a lot in Big Fish.
No Country for Old Men was one of the most memorable movies of recent years. Loved it…every single frame of it. Haven’t read the book…it’s on ‘the list’…but apparently the movie is a very faithful representation.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:53 amHave yet to actually screen the movie, but I love the Coen brothers and I love McCarthy’s stuff, so I don’t fear disappointment….
May 15th, 2008 at 10:59 amJake, No Country is a GREAT movie. Just watched it Monday night.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:18 am