February 2011

The Stuff Dreams are Made Of

  • Title: The Science of Sleep (Science des reves, La)
  • IMDB: link

science-of-sleep-posterWriter/director Michel Gondry‘s film is a wild ride through a uique and fascinating world.  The film exists in two worlds, reality and the dreams of the main character, and sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which.

Promised a creative job by his mother, Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) moves back home to the apartment house.  Once there he discovers two things.  The first is the job is nothing more than mindless office work.  The second happens when he meets a young woman who lives across the hall and discovers, to his amazement, he loves her.

Now things are going to get complicated, so stay with me.  Stephane meets his neighbor Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her friend Zoe (Emma de Caunes).

For no real reason the relationship begins in lies.  Stephane, more attracted to Zoe than Stephanie, says he lives across town, and the girls both lie about thier jobs.  Slowly he realizes that it is Stephanie who is the real prize.

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Love’s Guilty Pleasures

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Here are, but a few, choices for my really bad love story addictions. These are the films that everybody hates to love, but can’t get enough of. What more do you need, the woman gets the hot guy in the end and everybody saves everybody. For your single Valentine’s Day viewing pleasure, put down the revolver and pick up the remote.

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Comic Rack

It’s a new week so it must be time to talk about comics! Welcome to the RazorFine Comic Rack boys and girls. Pull up a bean bag and take a seat at feet of the master as we offer you this quick list of all kinds of comic book goodness set to hit comic shops and bookstores this week from all your favorite publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Dynamite, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Atomic Robo Deadly Art of Science, Batgirl, Batman and Robin, Betty, Birds of Prey, Carnage, Deadpool Team-Up, The Flash, G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero, Osborn, Red Robin, Starborn, The Walking Dead, Warlord of Mars, X-Factor, the first issues of Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes, Cinderella: Fables are Forever, Deus Ex, Hack/Slash, Onslaught Unleashed, Power Man and Iron Fist, Sherlock Holmes: Year One, SpongeBob Comics, Star Trek: Infestation, and the final issues of Assassins Creed: The Fall, Hotwire: Deep Cut, and Widowmaker.

Enjoy issue #114

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Valentine’s Week

Hey folks, it’s that time again where we worship a naked baby archer and give the gift of fattening chocolate treats! We’re just one week away from Valentine’s Day so I’ve scrounged through RazorFine’s backlog to offer you up Valentine’s Day themed posts all week. Over the next four days you’ll see movie and DVD reviews for many different films, some of which you may recognize and some of which you may not, with a couple other odds and ends thrown in as well. That’s right, four days of love, starting today. Enjoy!

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The Company Men

  • Title: The Company Men
  • IMDB: link

the-company-men-posterWritten and directed by John Wells, former West Wing showrunner and once president of the Writers Guild of America, The Company Men takes a look at three men each effected when the company which has employed them for years begins massive downsizing that eventually leaves each of them without a job.

Ben Affleck stars as the hot-shot salesman, with a wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) and family, who can’t accept his new situation and becomes increasingly frustrated when no new opportunities for employment present themselves. Chris Cooper is the longtime company man who worked his way from the factory floor to the boardroom. And Tommy Lee Jones is the best friend of company owner (Craig T. Nelson) who dislikes his life, the compromises being made in the company he helped start, and a wife whose only cares seem to be opportunities to shop – which explains why he prefers the spending time with the company’s hatchet woman (Maria Bello) instead.

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