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‘Melodrama finally needs to end
January 17, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Jason Pafundi
What we’ve been hearing since August is that Carmelo Anthony wants to play for the New York Knicks. And in the months since his summer wedding, we’ve been treated to rumors and speculation about trades being close, trades being discussed and trades falling apart.
The New Jersey Nets have been the most aggressive pursuers of Anthony, hoping to bring a new face of the franchise with them when they move to Brooklyn in 2012. But the question at the root of all the rumors and speculation has always been the same: will Carmelo sign a contract extension with the Nets? continue reading…
Bridges, cast deliver gritty performance- B
December 31, 2010 at 11:28 am
Jason Pafundi
In the second adaptation of Charles Portis’ 1968 novel of the same name, the Coen brothers, famous for films such as “O Brother Where Art Thou?”, “No Country for Old Men”, and “The Big Lebowski”, among many others, keep closer to the original story then the first movie adaptation in 1969 and starring John Wayne.
Jeff Bridges brilliantly plays U.S. Marshall Rueben “Rooster” Cogburn, hired by the even-more-brillian Hailee Steinfeld, making her film debut, to hunt out the man who murdered her husband.
Steinfeld, 14-years-old, plays Mattie Ross, a very mature girl who while collecting her father’s belongings and body, inquires as to who’d be the best man to search for his killer, an outlaw named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin).
Ross chooses Cogburn after being told he was the most merciless, but he rebuffed her attempts numerous times before finally agreeing.
Before setting out, Steinfeld’s Ross is met by Texas Ranger La Bouef, played by Matt Damon, who has been searching for Chaney since he murdered a senator in Texas.
‘The Fighter’ is a knockout- B+
December 28, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Jason Pafundi
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, “The Fighter” is a boxing movie that isn’t all about boxing.
Wahlberg plays boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, a product of the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts, an up-and-coming fighter being trained by his crackhead brother Dickey, himself a former championship-contending boxer.
Bale steals the show as rail-thin, cracked-out Dicky, a fighter who had his career derailed by drugs and crime. Dicky is not only one of the main reasons that Micky is a skilled fighter, but he is also the one of the reasons Micky’s career goes from being on the uptick to spiraling downward.
Adams plays Micky’s girlfriend and does a job worthy of her Golden Globe nomination. She “spars” with Micky’s mother Alice and his seven in-bred looking, trashy sisters who seems to be looking out for themselves rather than in the best interests of their brother.
Tiger’s in the Woods
August 9, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Jason Pafundi
Everyone knew to expect some significant struggles for Tiger Woods this season, what with the scandal of the past nine months destroying his image and his marriage. But the way he is playing right now, it might also be destroying his career.
On Sunday, Woods completed the World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational at 18-over-par, his worst 72-hole tournament performance of his career. That he has won this tournament an astounding SEVEN times seems to magnify the struggles he had at Firestone this past week.
Throughout the four rounds, Tiger displayed signs of disinterest, something unheard of for a guy once considered among the greatest, if not the greatest, competitor in all of sports. He routinely missed fairways and greens and putts, and his play was closer to that of an amateur then to someone who has been called the greatest golfer of all time.
What Woods is going through in his personal life has clearly taken its toll on his golf. The man who used to have immeasurable focus, has lost it. Not exactly the best frame of mind to be in heading into the final major of the year, the PGA Championship, this week at Whistling Straits.
Christopher Nolan, director of Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige and The Dark Knight, has become a must-see director, on the same level as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Anytime he makes a movie, you must see it, and his latest film, Inception, is no exception.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (my No. 2 behind Denzel), Inception is a movie about an agency who’s job it is to infiltrate a human’s dreams for the purpose of stealing information.
Going in, I had the impression that the movie would be hard to follow (based on the trailers), and it was. Anybody who sees this movies mustn’t drink anything beforehand, because if you leave to go to the bathroom, you’ll be lost when you get back. And that isn’t a bad thing. I want a movie that constantly keeps my attention, and this one certainly did that.
