Movies We Like: ‘Brick’ (2005)

Brendan Frye: “Your muscle seemed plenty cool putting his fist in my head. I want him out.”
The Pin: “Looky, soldier…”
Brendan Frye: “The ape blows or I clam.”

Fast and clever dialogue is one of the best things about hard boiled noir films of the past.  Tough guys didn’t need to be big and buff; all they needed was a quick tongue to get them out of the stickiest of situations.  Very few films are able to recreate this today.

Brendan Frye (in a sticky situation): “Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.” (more…)

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Tags: "Laura", Blood Simple, Brick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas
Posted Oct 10th 2009 at 5:50 pm in Film | 23656229 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cyogerst/2009/10/10/movies-we-like-brick-2005/Movies+We+Like%3A+%E2%80%98Brick%E2%80%99+%282005%292009-10-11+00%3A50%3A16Chris+Yogerst

‘500 Days of Summer’ Review

We know – because we’ve been told – that love is many things. Unrequited love, however, is only a few things, mainly painful and baffling. But mostly baffling, because long after the pain ebbs the confusion remains: Why didn’t she love me?  In director Marc Webb’s feature debut, the clever and charming “500 Days of Summer,” that’s the question a despairing Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) asks as he looks back and tries to put the pieces of a broken relationship together in a way that might help to make sense of it all.

Like the fevered recollections of the newly heartsick, the plot leaps back and forth through the now-haunting highs and inexplicable lows of Tom’s 500 day relationship with Summer (Zooey Deschanel), a girl he met at the office, a girl who warned up front that she’s not wired for any kind of permanent relationship. Foolishly, instead of taking that personally, Tom might have made the mistake of taking her at her word and goes all in, sure he’ll be the first to make his way through Summer’s natural defense, the ethereal aloofness that both draws him and constantly keeps him off guard.   (more…)

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Tags: 500 Days of Summer, annie hall, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marc Webb, Zooey Deschanel
Posted Jul 24th 2009 at 5:00 am in Featured Story, Reviews | 19103445 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/07/24/500-days-of-summer-review/%27500+Days+of+Summer%27+Review2009-07-24+12%3A00%3A27John+Nolte

DVD Review: Killshot

Something must be seriously wrong with “Killshot,” the straight-to-video flick starring the resurgent Mickey Rourke. The movie features not just Rourke, but rising star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Diane Lane, Rosario Dawson and Thomas Jane – reputable actors, all.

And it’s under the direction of John Madden (”Shakespeare in Love”), working from an Elmore Leonard story. And it still rocketed past every movie theater save one in Arizona earlier this year, netting a measly $18,000?

The film, heading to DVD May 26, deserved a better fate. (more…)

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Tags: "Killshot", diane lane, Elmore Leonard, John Madden, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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