That’s what came to mind while watching “Wrecked,” a vehicle for Adrien Brody (“Predators”). It begins on a high note that suggests it could be a kid brother of “Memento,” with Brody waking up in the shotgun seat of a car somewhere in the woods. He’s bloodied. The auto’s totaled. There’s a dead guy in […]
Memento
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The less you know about the plot, the more pleasurable the experience. Without spoiling anything, however, its Escher loop of a story plops Jake Gyllenhaal’s Everyman character aboard a commuter train, where his government mission is to give him eight minutes to find a bomb that then will explode. If he can, they can find […]
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Mister Buddwing
All he has on him are a timetable, a couple of pills, and a phone number. Perhaps those digits will offer a clue to solve the mystery surrounding his identity, and thus, lead him to the only name on the tip of his tongue: Grace. Could he be to whom the newspaper headline “Dangerous Mental […]