The girl in Andre Techine’s “Girl on the Train” is Jeanne, who has never fully engaged in the society she occupies. She roller blades through French suburbs with her iPod blocking out other sounds, as the world glides past unobserved. Was it the job interview with the lawyer Samuel Bleistein that put Jews into her…
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Movie Trailer (2010)
Film Review for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) makes a transfixing heroine precisely because she has nothing but scorn for such a role. Embodied here for the third time by Noomi Rapace, she’s battered, angry and hostile, even toward those who would be her friends. Some of the suspense…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Movie Trailer (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Storyline In December 2002, Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, loses a libel case involving allegations he published about billionaire financier Hans-Erik Wennerström. He is sentenced to three months in prison and a hefty fine. Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but damaged surveillance agent and hacker, is hired by Henrik…
Going the Distance Movie Trailer (2010)
All About Going the Distance On-screen chemistry is arguably never more important in film than in a romantic comedy, but if the filmmakers were going to push the comedy envelope, good chemistry between all of the cast members would be critical, especially since Burstein planned to encourage improvisation on the set. “I really wanted to…
The Graves Movie Trailer (2010)
All About The Graves Multi-Faceted Horror The Graves a rollercoaster ride. If you look past the plot, you see elements of many of horror sub-genres: the slasher, ghost story, serial killer, evil cults, zombie behavior, even a Lovecraftian creature. Still, it blends together nicely to create a fun, scary rollercoaster ride. “This is a date…
Gulliver’s Travels Movie Trailer (2010)
All About Gulliver’s Travels It is Gulliver’s attempts to trick travel editor Darcy that sets in motion his epic adventure among the Lilliputians. He cons Darcy, for whom he has unrequited romantic feelings, into a choice writing assignment that takes him to the Bermuda Triangle and beyond – way beyond – to Lilliput. When Gulliver…