January 16th, 2008
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Ian W |
Drama, Movie Reviews, Thriller |
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You get a call from an old flame, she’s in trouble and she needs your help. You start nosing around but when she turns up dead you really start getting serious. You’ve got a source, a guy who knows who the big players are, you tell him to keep his ear to the ground. He steers you to the local drug lord, your old flame was playing with fire it seems. You’ve had run ins with the authorities in the past and when they try and put the squeeze on you, you throw them a bone…if they let you play things your way you’ll make sure they don’t regret it. So you stir things up in the hopes of flushing out the killer…
‘50s film noir? Nope, this is Brick a film made in 2005 that takes all the key noir elements and transplants them to a modern day California high school. Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is our loner hero looking to find whoever killed his high school sweetheart. The crime kingpin is played by Lukas Haas (yep the kid from Witness grew up to be a drug dealer!) while the authority figure is none other than Shaft himself Richard Roundtree, not playing a cop but the school’s Assistant Vice Principle. There’s even an alluring femme fatale, played by Nora Zehetner, who worms her way into our hero’s affections but you just know she’s got her own hidden agenda.
January 16th, 2008
Posted by
Ian W |
Doin' the iPod Shuffle |
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The second week of walking to work didn’t get started until today (yesterday the weather was crap and Monday was my birthday so I caught the bus both days). So here’s today’s list -
There:
- “Fisherman’s Daughter” - Daniel Lanois
- “Superstition” (Live) - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble (A performance that really shows what a great band Double Trouble were)
- “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You)” - Johnny Cash
- “The Middle of the Road” - Alabama 3 (A surprisingly restrained song from their latest album)
- “96 Tears” - The Stranglers
- “If a Tree Falls” - Bruce Cockburn (Bruce the musical eco-warrior)
- “Is That Love” - Squeeze
- “The Longest Time” - Billy Joel
And back again:
- “Morning Glory Wine” - Mark Lanegan (This would have fit in better on the way to work but it’s such a good song it’s always welcome)
- “Burn Bitch Burn” - Kiss
- “Rollercoaster” (Demo Version) - Robert Plant (I got a ticket to see Plant and Alison Krauss live for my birthday! Roll on May 5th)
- “Green Ballet II” - Adrian Legg (Legg’s a great guitarist but this hasn’t really got a beat you can walk to)
- “Tremor Christ” - Pearl Jam
- “Lady Luck” - J.J. Cale (Now here’s a guitarist who writes songs that get you moving!)
- “Tangled Up in Blue” - Bob Dylan (I love a good story song and this is a classic)
