Out to own today:
Don Jon
“There's only a few things I really care about in life. My body. My pad. My ride. My family. My church. My boys. My girls. My porn,” Jon Martello Jr. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
If you want to pigeonhole DON JON, the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who also writes and stars, then it may be considered to be a rom-com; but in the same vein as 500 DAYS OF SUMMER. It is a conscious effort to wrong-foot the genre, and actually have something interesting to say about male-female relationships. Gordon-Levitt is unafraid to turn the air blue with explicitly frank dialogue. [To read more, click here.]
If you want to pigeonhole DON JON, the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who also writes and stars, then it may be considered to be a rom-com; but in the same vein as 500 DAYS OF SUMMER. It is a conscious effort to wrong-foot the genre, and actually have something interesting to say about male-female relationships. Gordon-Levitt is unafraid to turn the air blue with explicitly frank dialogue. [To read more, click here.]
Free Birds
“I’m a flock of one,” Reggie (Owen Wilson)
Let us put this out there: An animated film about time travelling turkeys was always going to struggle on the quality meter. It might though have had a nutty entertainment value in the right hands. There is urbanity to our entry into the world of the condemned; a free-range farm has Reggie in initial narration observe, “I’m not going to dress it up, turkeys are dumb.” Ostracised and self-aware, the rest of his cohorts are blissfully ignorant of their imminent demise in time for Thanksgiving. Happenstance allows Reggie to be saved by the President’s daughter demanding her father pardon him. She has the habit of delivering awkward home truths to his staff and then suddenly passing out tired. [To read more click here.]
Let us put this out there: An animated film about time travelling turkeys was always going to struggle on the quality meter. It might though have had a nutty entertainment value in the right hands. There is urbanity to our entry into the world of the condemned; a free-range farm has Reggie in initial narration observe, “I’m not going to dress it up, turkeys are dumb.” Ostracised and self-aware, the rest of his cohorts are blissfully ignorant of their imminent demise in time for Thanksgiving. Happenstance allows Reggie to be saved by the President’s daughter demanding her father pardon him. She has the habit of delivering awkward home truths to his staff and then suddenly passing out tired. [To read more click here.]
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