Cry_Wolf was pretty good. A bit better than I expected it to be. The plot keeps you guessing what’s really going on and it all pays off pretty well in the end. Taking into account that the writer/director Jeff Wadlow has only done some shorts before, it’s pretty darn impressive. The young cast already has a good amount of experience behind them, so I’m sure that helped.
The story is pretty straight forward. The new kid at the swanky private school falls in with the fringe group of mild troublemakers. Just for fun, they decide to capitalize on the news of a local murder and create a serial killer rumor. Problem is, it quickly appears that their imagined killer has come to life and is after them. Is it the real killer upset that he’s being made fun of? Is it one of them just out to scare the others? Are they all out to spook one another? Or is it something else?
If you’re interested in a good mystery slasher film with some witty twists, check it out.
Wall Street is a classic and rightfully so. Oliver Stone’s examination of the rise and fall of stock broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) gives us a perfect look at the culture of oppulance and greed that personified the mid-1980s. We get to meet Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) who is greed personified. Gekko earns at all costs and takes a liking to Fox. A special treat is seeing Martin Sheen play Fox’s blue collar father. Both men are good actors and play well off one another.
By today’s standards, the film may move a little slow and the computers in use are ancient. But that’s how things were in 1987. There was no 24 hour trading. No web-based brokerages. Everything was done by running, making phone calls and yelling. A lot. It wasn’t easy to get inside information. It wasn’t easy to make millions of dollars (and millions of dollars were worth a lot more).
If you remember the “Greed is good!” ideals of real-life Gekkos in those heady days of the boom–or if you’re interested in seeing how things have and haven’t changed since then–check it out. Stone’s films have a well-earned place in the history of cinema and this is one of them that made his name known to everyone.
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