Allied

wingcommander (sans felines) meets return to castle wolfenstein in this wwii thriller romance about a dashing ontarian-quebecois pilot meeting a parisienne-german spy, with a scarred english patient thrown in for good measure. the shifting dunes and casablanca setting are evocative, but ultimately, even cotillard's convincingly "good" acting could not make up for pitt's vacant stiffness... read more

another zemeckis film that was better than i remembered. i barely gave this a pass the first time around but this time i bumped it up a half star and thought it was much better. not great, not classic, not award worthy but less of a slog and more entertaining than remembered. i still had issues with the resolution (no spoilers this time) but in general i liked how it played out and thought the love story was much more solid than i remembered. with the 18th film in the zemeckis marathon just completed and one left to go i've pleasantly surprised more often than not. i thought the last 10 or so... read more

7 aliados muchas reminiscencias y un final en el aeropuerto homenaje a casablanca con el mayor strasse salvando el culo de bogart pitt. read more