It's not very often that a good post apocalyptic film shows up. After having to deal with crap like The Road, it's refreshing to see a quality one like Book of Eli. The movie takes place in the year 2042, and something unmentioned has managed to completely decimate the world. Eli is crossing the wasteland on a religious journey to deliver one of the last remaining bibles to someone way over on the west coast. Along the way he runs into gangs, madmen, starvation, and all sorts of other nastyness. A man named Carnegie, the leader of a small settlement of brigands and thieves, discovers what Eli is carrying, and lets lose the hounds. This leads to some awesome action sequences. Eli must have been trained by Les Stroud himself, because even after being shot, he still manages to find a way to continue. Fans of the Fallout series will feel at home here. The director really did an awesome job of portraying the wasteland as a horrifically dangrous place where only the mo
Another movie I thought would be lame when I first saw it; but just like with books, you can't judge a movie by it's DVD box. City Island was one of the few drama movies that really keeps the story flowing. The film is all about the convoluted, lie-filled lives of the Rizzos. Every single family member has a massive secret that no one else knows about. The daughter is a professional stripper, the dad goes to acting lessons under the guise of playing poker games; and everyone secretly smokes whenever no one else is looking. When the father discovers that a new in-mate at the jail he works at is his 24 year old son from a wife he ran away from years ago, everything spirals into complete and utter chaos. The movie is primarily drama, but the director did such a good job with pacing it really keeps the ball rolling. Every 10 minutes another twist or lie is built up or knocked down. It really is a fascinating look at how quickly lies can overwhelm even a small group of p
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