City Island was a great indie film that should have gotten more exposure

City Island was a very entertaining film with a great cast. Great performance by Andy Garcia.  This is probably my favorite of his films.  His character loved his amll community but it seems wants to secretly want to break free from it.  He works as a prison guard but wanted to try to be an actor and has secretly been taking an acting class.  Alan Arkin had an interesting role as Garcia's acting coach.  Alan Arkin played more of a realistic acting coach than you usually see in TV and films.  Usually acting coaches and acting classes are portrayed with ridiculous over acting.  Ezra Miller is once again great. Everything I see with Miller in it he plays pretty much the same character, but he does it so well. I liked how his character was really into fat chicks but the girl he likes thinks he's some ass-whole who makes fat jokes. You really don't see many teen characters who are really into fat chicks, especially when it is done in a since way. Julianna Margulies was good, but I've definitely seen her do better a better performance.  Her accent seemed forced at times.  Emily Mortimer really reminded me of Emily Watson.  I liked The big climax and it was very rewarding and very funny. This was a very well written film that should have gotten more exposure.  I don't think I even heard of this film until it was released on DVD.  The DVD cover is what initially struck me.

You'll notice I know have switched the font of my blog posts from Comic Sans to Tahoma.  Everyone always shits on Comic Sans and I like other fonts so I finally gave in and charged the font.

Jared Leto was creepy good as Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27

Chapter 27 is about Mark David Chapman and what he did in the last three days before he shot John Lennon 4 times in December 1980. Jared Leto was great and almost unrecognizable putting on so much weight to play Mark David Chapman. He looks eerily like Chapman in the film. The movie had it's flaws but it was still fairly good. I liked the idea of Chapman telling his story from the mental institution. I liked all the references to the Catcher in the Rye. I bet in those final three days before Chapman shot Lennon he really did make similar references to the book as he walked around Manhattan. I liked how the film was named Chapter 27 as if it was a continuation of Catcher in the Rye, which has 26 chapters. Lindsay Lohan was surprising ok, not great but OK. That's probably only because she didn't play a big character in the film, if she did she probably would have brutally killed the film.  It was really weird that the guy who portrayed Lennon was named Mark Lindsay Chapman.  I was disappointed with the ending though. He shots Lennon and then it ends. Right after the real Mark David Chapman shot Lennon he sat down on the sidewalk and started reading the Catcher in the Rye again. I wish the film would have continued just a little longer to show what Chapman did after he shot Lennon.  The scenes with the coffee shop guy were funny.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant try their hand at a more serious film with Cemetery Junction

I only rented Cemetery Junction because it said written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Though I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much of other work of theirs I've seen. They made names for themselves as brilliant comedy writer/actors but with this film they have successfully proved they can write a more serious film. I wasn't sure if I liked the film until the end when it finally came together.  Some of the deleted scenes were very funny.  I'm guessing they took them out to maintain the more serious tone most of the film had.  The scenes with the coffee shop guy were funny.  I give it 3 out of 5 stars, speaking of which I want to think of some new thing instead of stars to rate movies with, any suggestions?

Dorothy visits Worcester

I took this picture with cell phone. 2 weeks ago  Pictured is someone dressed as Dorothy from The Wiggles in the rotary that connects Highland and June St in Worcester near WSC.