Cos I feel like I'm watching something Dying

So, you want a movie review? Okay, you have you a movie review, you movie whores.

Cranberry Lane
1994
Fresco Films
Directed by Danny Glover (his directorial debut)

Based on the short story On the Line, by playwright Mikel Gronsache

Starring: Brad Pitt [as Henry Lord], Coolio [as Frank Lord], Mark Whalberg [as Rick Marley], and introducing (yes, her first movie) Tara Reid as Melanie Yules.

I had the pleasure to see this fine film last week. It was a cult hit indie film in its day, garnering multiple awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
The story revolves around the lives of three men, Henry and Frank Lord (Pitt and Coolio, respectively), and Rick Marley (Whalberg). Henry and Rick are roommates sharing a flat in 1960s London. Rick is an aspiring author, and Henry is his drug-addict childhood friend.
The story heats up as Rick tires of having Henry bumming his every last pence, and suggests he finds some place else to live.
Later that same day, Henry recieves a marriage invitation from America - it would seem his brother is to be married... A brother, it would seem, he never knew he had. Coolio gives the preformance of his life as Frank Lord, Henry Lord's brother.
Henry returns to America to meet his brother - shocked to find that his mother once had a one night stand with a young black student she tutored while his father was at War in the 1940s.

This all happens within the first 20 or so minutes of the movie, and the real story begins when Rick Marley takes an holiday to the US to visit his old home town. What he finds waiting for him would spoil too much of the film.

Suffice to say, this great film about the importance of friendship, love, and brotherhood lacks nothing. When Rick falls in love with the to-be-bride (a darling role for then new-comer Tara Reid), the film asks a deep question few films would dare - what is more important: Friendship, or Brotherhood?

Truly worth the rental fee - check it out for yourself if you don't believe me.
In Memory of Petey
[Steven]
Time:11:13 PM

Thursday, October 07, 2004

On African-american Vampires

Such as Blade. Really, a great movie entertainment wise. I mean, how can anyone even hope to top a black vampire for pure entertainment? Not even just a vampire even, a "day walker", who isn't vampire or human. This great wonderful invincible black vampire-killing half-vampire. Everything about this guy is cool. He absolutely radiates cool. He is so totally in control of the situation that you never doubt him. Not even when the bad guys have him all tied up, and they're laying a beating on him, laughing at him, and I'm sitting there thinking, "Blade, you are so cool. These guys really have it coming" and sure enough one of them starts messing around with his sword and the sword attacks him. I'm not even joking. The sword, Blade's sword, attacks this guy's hand. It's incredible, really. Mere words can't even capture the awe and admiration I have, just for the mere concept of this. I mean whew boy. Yeah.

In Memory of Petey
[Dave]
Time:1:18 PM

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