Joshua Mauldin

Saw this beauty over the weekend. It’s an intriguing film about of two sets of half brothers on opposite sides of the socioeconomic fence. They all share a father, but he left one set of brothers in the dust to start a new family. The brothers all meet at his funeral and what follows is a slowly-paced, honest and sad story of revenge, family and spite.

I particularly loved a lot of the photography in the film, some of the shots of Arkansas in there were fantastic. Netflix has it, and I’d highly recommend watching.

Totally hooked on this show. Just finished Season 1 and got blown away. Who would have thought I’d fall in love with a show whose main character is a serial killer. Way to go, Showtime.

And thank goodness Netflix lets you watch instantly!

I was really happy to be able to see The Dark Knight on opening night.  Being a longtime fan of Batman and being part of the superhero generation, I was pretty much foaming at the mouth when I found out there would be a sequel to Batman Begins.  

The movie was one of the best superhero movies I’ve ever seen.  And surprisingly slim when it came to cheesy dialogue, which seems to plague lots of otherwise good superhero movies (sorry, Iron Man).  The makeup and special effects were nothing short of incredible.  This is especially true with our villains.  And the truck chase scene you saw in the previews was far more amazing than I could have imagined—it was brilliant.

I’d like to make special note of Heath Ledger’s acting here as well.  Not because of his death just before the movie’s release, but because of how great it actually was.  He played very well what I thought to be a dark and crazy villain.  He nailed the mannerisms of The Joker down to the last little detail.  

They also seemed to handle multiple villains really well.  Considering Spiderman 3’s approach to multiple villains, The Dark Knight took the cake and drank Spiderman 3’s milkshake.  The villains were pretty well developed, and they didn’t really seem to compete for screen time or seem really flat.  My only criticisms were that a certain villain was in the movie for such a short period of time, I wondered why they were even there.  Perhaps to avoid where Spiderman 3 fell short.

I can’t wait to see this in IMAX!

In case you haven’t seen it, someone happened to capture it with a handheld camera.  For those of you who are quality snobs or don’t want to spoil the movie, I’d suggest skipping out on this one.