It was a dark and stormy Christmas night. The kind of night to catch up
on a couple more movies. One such movie, "Arbitrage" features Richard
Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth and Brit Marling ("Sound of My Voice",
"Another Earth"). Richard Gere plays a billionaire who wants to sell
his trading empire but gets in trouble. Marling plays his daughter who
is an executive in the company. Marling didn't have to do a lot of
research as she has a degree in economics from Georgetown University and
may have worked at Goldman-Sachs (IMDB says she turned it down and the
film's director claims she did work there briefly). The writer-director
Nicholas Jarecki also is no stranger to the world of big finance. Both
of his parents were Wall Street traders. His introduction to the world
of film was at 16 years old being hired as a consultant on hacking for
the movie "Hackers". He decided to go into film because he noticed that
the director was the center of attention for Angelina Jolie.
This is an excellent film and the rental Bluray was complete with
commentary (and excellent one BTW) and extras.
Rented "Silent Night" on Vudu and was disappointed that the sound was
stereo. I even stopped the film and ran their DD+ demo which
accordingly played as it should but not the film. Probably a little to
brutal for FFL'ers and a Canadian remake of the 1984 classic. Highlights
include Donal Logue as a "bad Santa" making children cry and probably
the most humorous moments of the film. Also stars Malcolm McDowell and
Jaime King.
A Christmas bonus was "Doctor Who: The Snowmen" on BBC America. It
featured the comely Jenna-Louise Coleman who apparently is going to be
Doctor Who's cohort on the coming season. As usual another fun "Doctor
Who" watch.
