Tag Archives: Mark Ruffalo

The Kids Are All Right – Two moms plus one sperm donor equals a sharp modern comedy

Posted on 21 March 2011 by Jason Best

Lisa Cholodenko’s sharp, witty and thought-provoking comedy drama The Kids Are All Right gives a very modern twist to a stock situation – the sexy outsider who gets involved in the lives of a long-term married couple. The twist is … Continue reading →

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The Kids Are All Right – Family ties get a new twist in a comedy for today

Posted on 29 October 2010 by Jason Best

A happily married couple’s relationship comes under threat from a sexy interloper. You’ve seen this film before, haven’t you? The set-up has been a mainstay of the erotic thriller genre from Fatal Attraction to last year’s Obsessed. Refreshingly, the thought-provoking … Continue reading →

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The Brothers Bloom – A globe-trotting caper comedy that doesn’t know when to stop

Posted on 4 October 2010 by Jason Best

Writer-director Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his 2005 neo-noir thriller Brick (think Dawson’s Creek meets The Big Sleep) is a quirky con-men comedy (think The Sting remade by Wes Anderson). Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody play the eponymous Bloom brothers, a … Continue reading →

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The Brothers Bloom – Taken for a ride by globetrotting con-men

Posted on 4 June 2010 by Jason Best

Dawson’s Creek meets The Big Sleep – that was writer-director Rian Johnson 2005 debut movie Brick, a film noir thriller set in a California high school where the students went around speaking the kind of hard-boiled dialogue last heard coming … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Shutter Island – Leo risks a crack-up on Marty’s craggy island

Posted on 12 March 2010 by Jason Best

Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s fourth screen collaboration, is a psychological mystery thriller that takes place in 1954 and harks back to that era’s edgy film noir classics and exquisitely suggestive horror films. In look and mood, it recalls such … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Blindness, and the dangers of multi-tasking

Posted on 9 October 2009 by Beth Williams

If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. To activate the sound in the trailer: hold your cursor over the … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Blindness – A chilling parable

Posted on 30 March 2009 by Jason Best

Based on a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago and directed by Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (maker of City of God and The Constant Gardener), Blindness is a chilling parable set in an unnamed city stricken by an epidemic … Continue reading →

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