Stone

It seems Edward Norton has a penchant for playing locked up criminals. He’s made a career of it, from his first role, which also got in an Oscar nod, in Primal Fear, to American History X. Well, he’s back at it again, in Stone, a film by John Curran. Norton and Curran have worked together before in The Painted Veil, and the chemistry is evident, even if it’s futile. The film revolves around a parole officer named Jack, played... Read More

25th Hour

25th Hour reads as a very angry love letter from Spike Lee to New York City.  It’s certainly one of Lee’s better joints, the piece of a competent, mature filmmaker, not some of the blathering drivel we’ve seen in some of his movies.  25th Hour is well worth checking out. The story follows Irish, New York drug dealer Monty (the impeccable Edward Norton).  He’s not big time, but not necessarily small time either.  The police... Read More

Pride and Glory

The buzz around Pride and Glory was pretty bad after New Line decided to push the film’s release date back from March 14th this year. People assumed the movie was crap, that the studio was embarrassed of it.  I believed these rumors.  I did.  Even after I read Colin Farrell’s attempt to shed more light on the situation.  He had this to say about it all: “There’s this rumor going around that [Pride and Glory has been bumped]... Read More

The Underwhelming Hulk

I saw ‘The Incredible Hulk’ last night… It wasn’t horrible. It wasn’t terrific, it just was. The film surpassed my expectations of Leterrier’s talent (yes, I was expecting to see something closer to ‘The Transporter 3′). But the script failed to meet my expectations of Edward Norton’s talents. It’s annoying to wonder how much of the film was lost in the Norton/Leterrier/Marvel fued. ... Read More