Charlie Day directs and stars in this film that takes us through the life cycle of an actor in hyper speed. He doesn't speak, or have any real talent, but somehow fails upward. It's satire done in the type of comedies we've seen over and over in Hollywood's past, and quite frankly, cartoons.
It's a big swing with a bigger cast. I want to like it. It's directed well and never loses focus. But at the end of the day…
This might be the most artful kids movie I’ve ever seen. Caleb Deschanel has a hell of an eye, and under the direction of Carroll Ballard they put together a beautiful picture that lives under the rule of show, don’t tell.
I’m going to talk about this film in depth in a second season episode of Fields of Glory.
Martin Scorcese’s student film has a man walk into a perfectly white bathroom and start shaving. It gets bloodier…and bloodier, until he final starts getting his neck…you see where this is going.
It’s a perfectly executed metaphor on the U.S. involvement with Vietnam. No amount of blood will make the shaver reconsider shaving. Well done: simple and to the point.
If you want to contemplate war in cinema further listen to a podcast that I produce called Reel War Project.
If there's one living director who understands an obsessive process, it's David Fincher. Here he delivers a tight thriller about a contract killer who goes off script when missing his shot, but he's desperately trying to get back on the page.
This movie's lean, mean, and funny...iconic TV characters watch out...our killer's going to travel under your name. Fincher rarely misses. The Killer is no different.
Check out the podcast that takes the time to look at the industrial military complex's relationship to film, Reel War Project.
