The trick to any decent film featuring magic, or an element thereof, is to walk a tightrope between being just a bit smarter than the audience (or at least SOME members of it) and not being too accessible as to reveal too much to them. It is here in Now You See Me that director…
The near future doesn’t look too bad. Phones are translucent and are just a sliver in thickness, you video chat through your television by voice command, cars are getting greener and smaller, and your local library will no longer maintain hard-copy volumes for you to check out. The domestic robot market is also taking off….
In 2003 Brian Douglas Wells, a high school dropout, pizza deliveryman, and “valued employee” of the Mama Mia Pizzeria, was double-crossed by Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes, his co-conspirators in a botched robbery plot. On the afternoon of August 28th, at the end of a dirt road, the crooks fastened a time bomb to Wells’…
Pizza delivery isn’t all about getting to screw lonely housewives (“Loverboy”). Sometimes these front-liners can get kidnapped and forced to rob a bank as the expletive-ridden, new R-rated trailer for 30 Minutes or Less shows us. Something tells me this action-comedy directed by Ruben Fleischer (“Zombieland“) is going to be one to not miss this…
