Drive

There’s a lot to like about Drive: we have a hero, a villain, and a running time of about an hour and half.  That’s about as long as you really want to hang out with the people you meet in Drive-any longer and one of them will turn around and  kill you. The previews for Drive made it look like a film about a getaway driver, which is why some nutjob sued because there was not that much on the getaway driver front.  The opening scenes follow along as our hero drives a getaway car and does a pretty good…

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Another Earth

Another low budget sort-of-science-fiction film with a lot of art house appeal.  Another Earth is about a woman who is in a car crash and crippled with guilt over her irresponsible actions. She spends years in jail and then stalkes the man she plowed into.  She spends a lot of time moping around and looking sad and remorseful. In the background of this sad sack story of a drunk driver is the secondary story of a second earth appearing in the sky one day.  The other earth is an exact duplicate of our own earth.  It keeps getting closer and…

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