Sunlight Jr. | Charlie Countryman | Nebraska
Slim pickings this week, as - unsurprisingly - nobody really wants to release a movie in the week between the juggernauts of Thor and Hunger Games.
Sunlight Jr.
Everything about this screams "unrelentingly depressing" and damn if I'm not a sucker for those! I'm looking in your direction Blue Valentine, Revolutionary Road, 21 Grams, et al. Plus, the reviews credit a "strong performance by Matt Dillon" for some of the movie's allure. Considering those words have never shared the same sentence before, that alone has me intrigued. Considering Takers didn't collapse the world into a black hole of wooden acting when Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, and Matt Dillon shared the screen, I guess anything's possible.
Charlie Countryman
I can't stand Shia LeBouf. Let's just get that out of the way. I can't think of a single role he could do better than a half-the-price, a-tenth-of-the-name-recognition actor. Shia LeBouf couldn't emote his way out of a wet paper bag. Shia LeBouf acts like my dog fetches tennis balls: poorly, but you get the feeling he thinks he's great at it. Honestly though, this movie had me at "our villain is Mads Mikkelsen."
Nebraska
As long as we're going the all artsy route this week, this one takes the cake. The story of an old man convinced he's won a sweepstakes who guilts his son into driving him to the titular state to collect his winnings. The wildest card of the group, it could be the next Little Miss Sunshine, or it could be forgotten a month after you've seen it.
Sunlight Jr.
Everything about this screams "unrelentingly depressing" and damn if I'm not a sucker for those! I'm looking in your direction Blue Valentine, Revolutionary Road, 21 Grams, et al. Plus, the reviews credit a "strong performance by Matt Dillon" for some of the movie's allure. Considering those words have never shared the same sentence before, that alone has me intrigued. Considering Takers didn't collapse the world into a black hole of wooden acting when Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, and Matt Dillon shared the screen, I guess anything's possible.
Charlie Countryman
I can't stand Shia LeBouf. Let's just get that out of the way. I can't think of a single role he could do better than a half-the-price, a-tenth-of-the-name-recognition actor. Shia LeBouf couldn't emote his way out of a wet paper bag. Shia LeBouf acts like my dog fetches tennis balls: poorly, but you get the feeling he thinks he's great at it. Honestly though, this movie had me at "our villain is Mads Mikkelsen."
Nebraska
As long as we're going the all artsy route this week, this one takes the cake. The story of an old man convinced he's won a sweepstakes who guilts his son into driving him to the titular state to collect his winnings. The wildest card of the group, it could be the next Little Miss Sunshine, or it could be forgotten a month after you've seen it.