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Judd Apatow produces yet another R-rated comedy classic in this great buddy story about two best friends since elementary school who struggle with the end of high school and their parting of ways as they go off to separate colleges. This is likely the most vulgar high school sex comedy ever, co-written by Knocked Up's Seth Rogan, who also co-stars in the film as a bumbling, irresponsible police officer. Behind the vulgarities and the numerous illustrated pictures of phalluses (one of the best jokes in the movie) lies a picture with a lot of heart and sincerity. One of the most unlikely feelgood movies of the year.

In it's own way, the best of the trilogy. Anti-hero Jason Bourne battles with his own government in his quest to find out why he is who he is. Great acting by top notch stars Matt Damon, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Albert Finney. Julia Stiles still fails to prove that she's not made of lumber. Otherwise, a solid directorial feat by Paul Greengrass with a skin tight script. Excellent film.

Avant garde director Werner Herzog delivers a straight forward telling of Deiter Dengler's true life escape from a POW camp in Vietnam. Christian Bale plays Dengler, a German immigrant turned American pilot that is shot down over a Vietnamese village and taken hostage. While in the camp he meets several other POW's and, together, they plot a great escape. Bale is fantastic as usual and Steve Zahn proves that he's not just a second fiddle clown and that he truly has acting chops. All of the actors playing POW's lost frightening amounts of weight in this film. Jeremy Davies was especially emaciated and was tough to look at. Bale once again lost a tremendous amount of weight for this film (he got down to 120 lbs. for The Machinist). Another excellent and inspirational story.

Possibly my favorite of all these films, Zodiac is a terrific ensemble piece starring Jake Gyllenhall, Robert Downey Jr., Chloe Sevigny, Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Edwards. This is another true story about the events surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area killings by a man who called himself The Zodiac. Ruffalo and Edwards are a detective team hot on the killer's trail. Downey plays a cocky, yet savvy reporter that seems to uncover more than the police do. Gyllenhall is a boy scout posing as a newspaper cartoonist who does his own investigation and later begins writing a book on the Zodiac. While the movie sounds like it could be any serial killer movie, it turns out to be more of a tale of obsession by all involved in tracking a killer that continues to elude them over nearly three decades. This is the return of David Fincher whose last directorial effort was the disappointing Panic Room. He's back and in true form in this spellbinding piece that ropes you in early and never lets you go. The characters' obsessions become your own as the movie unfolds. A brilliant, overlooked film. A must see.

So I picked up a Best Buy circular and noticed a film that went straight to DVD starring John Cusack and Morgan Freeman. Clearly my eyes must have been deceiving me! No, it was true and there was a reason that it went straight to DVD . . . it wasn't worth the price of a movie ticket. That's not to say it's a bad movie but it's definitely not a good movie. Cusack plays a widowed father who takes his troubled son on a hiking trip in an effort to do some damage control on their relationship. In the process they run across Freeman, a hired assassin who's been made by the cops after a traffic accident. With help from his aides, Freeman manages to escape capture. Cusack learns from a wounded cop that Freeman is a fugitive and Cusack takes Freeman into custody (turns out he's former police officer turned high school gym teacher) and begins to march him back into official police custody. Freeman's buddies are hot on their trail and, well, you've seen this movie a hundred times, haven't you? Cookie cutter stuff here with a really lousy script. In the movie, Freeman's character was hot on the trail of a big paycheck. Apparently he and Cusack were thinking of a paycheck when they agreed to star in this film as well. Catch it on basic cable next year if you are bored.

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