27 June 2011

The Company Men

More real and more depressing than Up In The Air.

The Adjustment Bureau

All believable except the romance.  Blade Runner is still the best Philip K. Dick adaptation to film, but this is a worthy addition to the list.

19 June 2011

The Dilemma

Would have been better as a comedy.

Solaris

Upon rewatching this, now in an excellent Blu-ray edition, it strikes me as a something greater than a mashup of Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch, with a tiny touch of Stanley Kubrick.

Black Death

Exhibit 349 in the case against religion run amok, and a kind of elegy for the tens of thousands of women murdered for "witchcraft" in Europe.

10 June 2011

True Grit (2010)

If there were more westerns like this, that would be reason enough for there to be more westerns.

04 June 2011

The Departed

Upon revisiting The Departed I am even more struck by the masterful adaptation of the source material, but my day job keeps reminding me that identity deletion is not nearly that easy.