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Reviewed By Alyn Darnay
The Hilarious Simon Pegg (Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) is back again, this time in a true “fish out of water story” as bumbling celebrity journalist Sidney Young.
Watching Sydneys decent into success is a true joy rife with tons of miscommunications, poor taste, boorishness, and lucky accidents. Example: He walks into work the first day wearing a bright red tee shirt reading “Young, Dumb, & Full of Come”, and proceeds to offer a like one to his new boss.
If you want to laugh hard for and hour and half, this is the film for you.
4 Stars
BLINDNESS
ReviewedBy Alyn Darnay
Visually stunning, it takes place in an unnamed metropolitan city and charts the course of the epidemic from its very first patient through a mass quarantine and beyond.
As the quarantine facility fills up, the outside world begins to take less and less care of the inmates until a new society is created inside the facility. A society based upon survival of the fittest where inmates are forced to trade their valuables and then their bodies for food.
Based on a 1995 novel by the Portuguese Nobel Prize winning writer José Saramago, “Blindness” stars Mark Ruffalo as an ophthalmologist stricken early with the disease, Julianne Moore as his wife who joins him in quarantine though she’s actually sighted, and it features Danny Glover and Gael García Bernal among the patients.
“Blindness” is not an easy film to watch and you should pay heed to its R-rating.
3.5 Stars
Eagle Eye
Reviewed By Alyn Darnay
EagleEye is a terrorist thriller revved up and set into non-stop action. It’s thebig screen used to it’s state-of-the-art visual potential to lay you back inyour seat and take you on a trip through the imaginary landscape of today’sgovernmental and military plot contortions.
ShiaLaBeouf plays Jerry Shaw, a Chicago copy clerk whose life is turned inside outby an anonymous female voice on his cell phone. Joining him on this intricateand confusing quest is single mom Rachel (Michelle Monaghan) and together theymanage to become the most wanted fugitives in the country after the voiceinforms that they’ve been “activated."
Chasingthem are two government agents, Billy Bob Thornton playing a by-the-book FBIagent, and Rosario Dawson, beautiful as a hard edged Air Force investigator.Along for the ride in a wonderfully underplayed role is Michael Chiklis ("TheShield") as the straight-laced secretary of defense.
Thefilm is reminiscent of a number of Hitchcock films, most notably “North ByNorthwest” with it’s wrongfully accused person on the run, and the omnipresent 2001:A Space Odyssey undertone is hard to ignore as well.
Don’ttry to make sense of this movie, just go enjoy it, it’s a fun ride all the waythrough. Eagle Eye is also playing in IMAX, and I highly recommend you spendthe extra $2 to see it in this format; it’s well worth money for theexperience.
4.5Stars
