13 Conversations About One Thing is an intriguing film that has a plot structure similar to Magnolia and Crash, where the lives of strangers intersect. The film takes a look at the fundamental nature of happiness—where it comes from, how it is attained, how it is lost, and how it all might just be a state of mind.
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Oh, man. I have seen Brick. And I don’t know where to start to tell you about it. Stats, I guess; Brick was written and directed by first timer Rian Johnson. It was made for a budget of just under $ 500,000, won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2005 and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the leading role of Brendan Fry. Plot next: Brendan receives a panicky phone call from his ex-girlfriend, begging for his help. When she turns up dead he sets off to locate “The Pin” in relation to “Brick”. He is slightly hindered by the fact that at first, he has no idea what those things are, but is determined to find the people accountable for his friend’s death. Believe me when I say that nothing in this paragraph (or probably this review) prepares you for what you will experience when you go to see Brick.
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First things first: I am a big Nathan Fillion fan. Big. Huge. Nathan Fillion is a completely underestimated actor, with impeccable timing, incredible dramatic range and flexibility (he can go from hero to wimp in 0.2 seconds), and a huge vocabulary (most people know him as Mal Reynolds in Firefly and Serenity or as the baddie in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but he was also the first Private Ryan in the Stephen Spielberg film, where in the space of about one minute screen time, he brings home the terror of war better than the entire opening sequence of that film expresses).
Well, now that that’s out of the way, let me tell you what I thought of Slither, in which Fillion stars as police chief Bill Pardy, who has to save his town (not to mention the woman he loves) from cannibalistic slugs from outer space.
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