Paperboy was a very strange movie, described by a friend thus: "despite getting booed at Cannes was a hugely entertaining over-the-top, sweaty, sexy and then some, Southern Gothic kinkfest of a movie." Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, and David O (from MI-5) are the main stars, with an ubercreepy turn as an inmate by John Cusack. :shudders:
I had to see this because my friend (mentioned above) told me that Zac runs around most of the movie at least shirtless, and frequently pantsless. Zac is my hugely age-inappropriate movie star crush, and naturally I was intrigued :snicker: by the idea of him doing much of the movie in his tighty-whities.
If you have trigger issues with incest, probably not your thing. I do, but it was very subtle here, and male/male, so not as triggery for me. It was a train wreck, but an entertaining one. And yes, Zac Efron was muy bueno in his underwear. lol
Deadfall at its core is a story of family and what we'll do for them when the shit hits the fan. Brother and sister, father and son, husband and wife, father and daughter. All four families are dysfunctional in some way, with some overt brother/sister incest vibes (seriously, someone needs to tag these things) that were not too squicky, for me anyway. Deadfall had a fairly heavy-hitting cast, including Kris Kristofferson, Sissy Spacek, Treat Williams, Kate Mara (a favorite of mine because she gets parts that don't depend on looks - not that she's unattractive, she's just not Hollywood gorgeous) and Eric Bana, with relative newcomers Olivia Wilde (who has gorgeous and unusual eyes) and Charlie Hunnam. Except for a news report playing in the background in one scene, you'd never know what the brother and sister did that necessitated them running, and it's really not material to the plot. Suffice it to say, they're on the run, and all kinds of violent hijinks ensue. Does include one very short but effective lovemaking sequence, with Hunnam and Wilde naked (not the brother and sister, fyi). Not all the families find resolution by the end of the movie, and the denoument, while not precisely Hollywood, was just what I expected. It could only have ended one other way, really, and while I was hoping they would go there, they at least opted not to give it a happy ending.
Mark Cuban had top production credit on Deadfall.
Cold Light of Day was a Bruce Willis movie, with Henry Cavill as the son placed in a very strange situation when someone kidnaps his family while he's visiting on vacation. It did some slightly surprising things with the plot. A potential love interest (great chemistry between Cavill and the actress) turned out to be the character's sister, and I was really pleased that they chose a sibling direction for the two rather than the more usual love starting under harrowing circumstances. Cavill is in the new Superman movie, Man of Steel (?) and has grown into quite a striking man since his turn as the young Mondego in Count of Monte Cristo. The action sequences weren't always believable, and the camera action was a bit much for me at times, but I really enjoyed this movie anyway. Aside from Bruce Willis, whose part is rather short, there's a star turn by Sigourney Weaver as a colleague of the father's whose motives are suspect. With the ending they gave it, it could easily turn into a franchise for Cavill, though perhaps not as successful a one as Bourne or Die Hard.
As for the redboxinstant thing - I did like getting the four free credits that I could use at the kiosk, but their streaming leaves a lot to be desired, and that's assuming you can find a recent movie you want to watch (they don't have much in the way of recent major motion pictures available to stream, and what they do have is extremely difficult to find - their search function sucks). I did managed to stream One For the Money and SWAT: Firefight. With only four credits per month and the streaming issues, it's definitely not worth $8 a month. Amazon is a much better deal at $80 a year, or Netflix for the same $8 a month, with a far greater selection and very few streaming issues that I've ever encountered.
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