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CONCUSSION

January 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CONCUSSION

By comparing the National Football League’s reaction to medical evidence linking repeated head trauma by its players to long-term brain damage and that of the tobacco industry’s reaction to medical evidence linking cancer and cigarette smoking, CONCUSSION cleverly makes its case. If it were just a case for corporate greed, that would be disturbing enough,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE, forensic pathology, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, traumatic brain injury, whistleblower

THE LOOKOUT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE LOOKOUT

With fearless performances in Greg Araki’s poetically disturbing MYSTERIOUS SKIN, in Rian Johnson’s piquantly original BRICK and now in writer/director Scott Frank’s THE LOOKOUT, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has established himself as one of the finest actors of his generation. As good as Frank’s script is, and make no mistake, it is superb, it’s Gordon-Levitt who takes… Read More »

Tagged With: bank robbery, brain injury, car accident, cinema, drama, film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode, movie, Scott Frank, suspense, traumatic brain injury

THE LOOKOUT DVD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE LOOKOUT DVD

THE LOOKOUT is another showcase in the burgeoning career of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, one of the best actors working today. It may be a low key noir in which he is working, but his performance as Chris Pratt, a brain-damaged former golden boy, is nothing less than riveting. The evolution of his character surpasses the seeming… Read More »

Tagged With: bank robbery, brain injury, car accident, cinema, drama, film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode, movie, Scott Frank, suspense, traumatic brain injury

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode and Scott Frank are on THE LOOKOUT

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode and Scott Frank are on THE LOOKOUT

Scott Frank’s script for THE LOOKOUT had been around for a decade or so before he found a way to have it made with him as the director. When I talked to him and co-stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode on March 14, 2007, he seemed to think it was worth the wait. With both… Read More »

Tagged With: bank robbery, brain injury, car accident, cinema, drama, film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode, movie, Scott Frank, suspense, traumatic brain injury

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