Now, I enjoy football as much as the next gal (Go, Seahawks!), but I also know it is a game and it isn’t the end-all/be-all of the New World Order. Or at least it shouldn’t be. But Oliver Stone takes football very very seriously. He has footage of football players interspersed with gladiators fighting to …
Wait a minute, nobody around here has reviewed Alexander yet? Not one of us rushed right out to see Oliver Stone’s epic masterpiece? No one even wanted to see Colin Farrell’s bits and pieces on the big screen? Huh. I guess it’s up to me to explain how Alexander both succeeds and falls flat, creating …
I had two fears going into this movie. One would be most obvious: Was I ready to see a dramatization of September 11th, 2001, and did I even want to? (I had skipped United 93 in the theaters.) The second was my fear of Oliver Stone. In my opinion, his movies are the equivalent of …
To prep for seeing Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, I finally checked out the original Wall Street (1987) that earned Michael Douglas an Oscar for playing slithery, dynamic, greedy Wall Street money-maker Gordon Gekko. Some of the film is dated, but it is still surprisingly relevant, and is very watchable. I can see Oliver Stone’s …
Anchored in the gruesomely violent world of Mexican drug cartels – who don’t take kindly to interlopers, competition or the word “no” – the film is based on Don Winslow’s novel of the same, and tells the story of best buds Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and Ben (Aaron Johnson). Chon’s an aggressive, no-nonsense war vet, Ben’s …