Movie Review: "Eagle Eye"

This action thriller throws together Jerry Shaw, an intelligent young rebel who works at “Copy Cabana” and Rachel, a single young mother working as a paralegal. Their sad lives include the recent death of Jerry’s twin brother and Rachel’s young son’s departure for a band field trip. A female calls the duo with very explicit instructions- threatening to kill them and their loved ones. Their every move is tracked and controlled by everyday technology.

The action is so intense and rapid, that it is difficult to keep up with who and what is being threatened and destroyed. The plot is a little above average in sophistication. If you’re looking for an action flick without a lot of bad language and people doing the wild thing on screen - this is it.

Movie Review: "Babylon A. D."

This latest Vin Diesel Sci-Fi Action flick is set in the near future earth. Diesel plays the invisible American mercenary Toorop who is hired by Russian mobster “Gorsky” (played by a greatly made up Gerard Gipardeu) to escort a mysterious orphaned female empath from a secluded monastery to New York City. The film is action packed and has great special effects. The movie starts out with great promise, but by movie’s end, more questions remain unanswered than answered.

Movie Review: "Frozen River"

This Indie is currently showing at Malco Studio on the Square. Mid South native, Courtney Hunt, both wrote and directed this film. The plot concerns the interplay between two single mothers in a rural upstate New York border town. One is white and the other Mohawk. Both struggle to keep their families together in difficult financial and social circumstances by smuggling across the frozen St Lawrence River. The overall mood of the story is dark and depressing. In the end, both learn how to sacrifice self to serve each other. Unfortunately, the overarching principle of their decisions is post-modernist and willing to sacrifice honesty and integrity to meet the basic needs of their respective families.