The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Prostitutes -- they're just like us. Funny how the movies glamorize the call "girl" - Pretty Woman - but don't like the seedy side of Tangerine that much. I guess that what will play in Peoria.
Here we have Sasha Grey (IRL a porn actress gone mainstream). She's got a boyfriend, an apartment, a job. She enjoys shopping, she's a good listener. That's what her Johns pay here for - we see them going to the movies, to dinner, talking about their day. And an occasional roll in the hay.
Set in the waning days of George W. Bush, it's got a lot in common with Up in the Air as we teeter between prosperity and despair. Directed by Stephen Soderbergh, we also see bits of Sex, Lies and Videotape, kind of a dry reality look at more of everyday life than some exciting other world.
It must be a good premise because there is a new TV show on Starz about this GF Experience. But again, just middle America fantasy.
* * * of 5
Here we have Sasha Grey (IRL a porn actress gone mainstream). She's got a boyfriend, an apartment, a job. She enjoys shopping, she's a good listener. That's what her Johns pay here for - we see them going to the movies, to dinner, talking about their day. And an occasional roll in the hay.
Set in the waning days of George W. Bush, it's got a lot in common with Up in the Air as we teeter between prosperity and despair. Directed by Stephen Soderbergh, we also see bits of Sex, Lies and Videotape, kind of a dry reality look at more of everyday life than some exciting other world.
It must be a good premise because there is a new TV show on Starz about this GF Experience. But again, just middle America fantasy.
* * * of 5
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
Both Superman (born 1938, Action Comics No. 1) and Batman (born 1940, Detective Comics No. 27) have been around a long time. We've heard the origin stories, we know the players in their lives. Is is too much to ask for something new?
Christopher Nolan did it with Batman in the 2000s and he's even back with part of this movie. With a $250 million budget, not much expense was spared. Lots of CGI and buildings crumbling - you'd think it was before 9/11. And the epic battle at the end between the two - lots of punching, not much blood.
Of course the biggest plot point is "Should everyone get together again?" Setting up for the Justice League of America and the best part of this movie, not Batman, not Superman (maybe Amy Adams as Lois Lane) but the first appearance of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Great eyebrows she has. She'll do fine.
The world didn't end with Ben Affleck as Batman- he does a serviceable job. Jeremy Irons as Alfred is the proper Englishman. And Henry Cavill is clean-cut Clark Kent/Superman. Laurence Fishburne is a decent Perry Grant at the Daily Planet.
DC Comics/Warner Bros. is not going to let Marvel/Disney get all the Superhero money available. I expect will see everyone again in multiple new movies. And to think, Superhero movies were at one time a gamble.
* * * of 5
Christopher Nolan did it with Batman in the 2000s and he's even back with part of this movie. With a $250 million budget, not much expense was spared. Lots of CGI and buildings crumbling - you'd think it was before 9/11. And the epic battle at the end between the two - lots of punching, not much blood.
Of course the biggest plot point is "Should everyone get together again?" Setting up for the Justice League of America and the best part of this movie, not Batman, not Superman (maybe Amy Adams as Lois Lane) but the first appearance of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. Great eyebrows she has. She'll do fine.
The world didn't end with Ben Affleck as Batman- he does a serviceable job. Jeremy Irons as Alfred is the proper Englishman. And Henry Cavill is clean-cut Clark Kent/Superman. Laurence Fishburne is a decent Perry Grant at the Daily Planet.
DC Comics/Warner Bros. is not going to let Marvel/Disney get all the Superhero money available. I expect will see everyone again in multiple new movies. And to think, Superhero movies were at one time a gamble.
* * * of 5
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