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Week of January 16, 2015
Can ransom money be taxed? First up…
Gone Girl
If your wife ever goes missing be sure to put her photo on
the sides of skim milk cartons only.
Unfortunately, the husband in this drama is too detached to
care.
When beloved children’s book inspiration Amazing Amy
(Rosamund Pike) disappears on her 5th wedding anniversary, her husband Nick
(Ben Affleck) becomes the prime suspect.
Condemned on cable news networks as a wife-killer, Nick’s
aloofness, and his secret affair, draws further aspersions of guilt.
However, the true fate of Amy is more shocking than her
initial vanishing, and subsequent return.
While Affleck does an outstanding job as the deadbeat
spouse, it’s Pike’s restrained performance as Amy that really brings this
alarming adaptation of the best-selling book to life.
Shrewdly directed by David Fincher, Gone Girl is a complex
and cunning commentary on marriage, murder and media sensationalism.
Incidentally, doing interviews in your missing wife’s
clothing doesn’t gain you public favor. Green Light
Men, Women & Children
In the olden days, if you talked on the phone during dinner
your parents could strangle you with the phone cord.
Lamentably, as this drama details, parents now need to
download a strangling App.
A father (Dean Norris) tries to connect with his son (Ansel
Elgort), who is cyber-stalking his estranged mother online.
A stage mother (Judy Greer) takes lurid photos of her
daughter (Olivia Crocicchia) to post online.
An overprotective mom (Jennifer Garner) scrutinizes her
daughter’s online activities ad nauseam.
A married couple (Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt) finds gratification
online, while their son can’t find gratification in reality.
A timely hodge-podge of cautionary tales concerning the
Internet, eating disorders, child pornography and suicide, MW&C comes off
as scattershot.
And while the message of re-connecting is well established,
the delivery is preachy and pessimistic.
Besides, the best way to watch you kid online is to befriend
them as a stranger. Red Light
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Strolling among high-priced gravestones is a good time to consider
cremation.
Mind you, the protagonist in this action movie is more apt
to put people into graves.
Years after quitting the police force and the bottle,
unlicensed investigator Matthew Scudder (Liam Neeson) agrees to help a
drug-dealer get back his wife from kidnappers.
While his attempt is fruitless, Scudder does learn the
kidnappers’ identities and sets out to end their trail of female victims.
Along the way, he picks up a young protégé (Brian Bradley)
with an affinity for detective novels.
Reprising his tough guy persona once again, Neeson manages
to bring some compassion to this role through his interactions with the kid.
A seedy mystery with random paroxysms of gunplay, this
adaptation of the best-selling book series featuring Scudder is a worthy
representation of the hard-boiled detective.
Incidentally, what makes a really successful private eye is
first-rate voice narration. Yellow Light
***Gone Girlfriend***
The Vanishing
The real reason wives are rarely kidnapped is because most
husbands won’t pay for their return.
That is why the captor in this thriller stole someone’s
girlfriend.
While on a road trip, Jeff’s (Kiefer Sutherland) girlfriend
Diane (Sandra Bullock) vanishes from a truck stop where they are filling up.
Years later, Barney (Jeff Bridges) introduces himself to
Jeff as the man who snatched Diane.
But in order to finally learn the truth of Diane’s
disappearance, Jeff must endure the same torment as her.
Unfortunately, that experience includes Jeff having to be
drugged, bound, and buried alive.
The American remake of the European original based on the
best selling Dutch novel, this 1993 version of the account is as suspenseful
and nerve-wracking as its inspiration.
With Bridges turn as the sleazy subjugator being one of the
film’s many highlights.
However, sometimes when your girlfriend disappears, it just
means you’ve been dumped.
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