Apr 29, 2013 19:39
The Lincoln Lawyer: Mathew McConaughey is the epitome of defense lawyers, with no trick to dirty if it gets his client off. Which bites him on the ass more than a bit when his latest case, defending Ryan Phillipe, sticks him with a dangerous sociopath who likes to play games with everyone around him...
Killing Them Softly: An excellent bit of crime noir. And the odd bit where segments of political speeches from the mortage/housing bubble financial crisis is used to set up an pay-off speech at the very end from Brad Pitt's contract killer...
Superman vs. the Elite: An animated adaptation of a story from one of the Superman comics. Where Big Blue is matched against a pseudo-version of The Authority. Mostly what I take away from this, is that the spoken version of someone aping Ellisian stand-in character dialogue is crazy annoying.,,
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