Night Moves

Night Moves

Director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) returns with this very naturalistic look at a trio of eco-terrorists. Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and Dena (Dakota Fanning) are a pair of environmental activists, who join up with Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) in Portland to blow up a dam.  Despite a few bumps along the way, the plan…

The Double

The Double

British comedian Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) follows up his directorial debut Submarine with this highly surreal and stylized adaptation of the famous Dostoevsky novella. The Double focuses on Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), a meek man, who lives a really unnoticeable existence.  His boss Mr. Papadopoulos (Wallace Shawn) fails to realize that Simon has been…

30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less is an action-comedy from the director of Zombieland.  It can easily be said that this film doesn’t have as original a premise as the previous, but I still found it to be quite hilarious. It’s a very simple plot: a looser of a pizza delivery boy (Jesse Eisenberg) gets strapped with a…

The Social Network

The Social Network

I remember firsthand experiencing the growth of Facebook from a site exclusive to college and university students to being the top social network in the world.  I was also somewhat familiar with the lawsuit that formed the basis, which the film was built around. Despite the disputed authenticity by the real Mark Zuckerberg, this film…

Zombieland

Zombieland

From the very start Zombieland had a very tongue-in-cheek feel to it.  Unlike the last major zombie-based comedy Shaun of the Dead, this film was definitely not a serious zombie film with serious situations. The film is fully of “zombie survival rules” written by Jesse Eisenberg‘s character that pop up on screen randomly and help…

Adventureland

Adventureland

I have to admit that Adventureland was not the type of film that I was expecting, since I found that it was more character-driven than comedy driven. However, I opened up to the film and found it a decent coming of age story. There are still fun bits within the film, usually courtesy of Bill…