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Safe House

Movie review by Russell Pinkston

Ex CIA and wanted international criminal Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) walks into the U.S. Embassy in Cape Town, South Africa.  He is quickly moved to a “safe house”  to be  interrogated.   CIA agent Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is the housesitter and hasn’t seen much action on this detail.  He hopes to move up and get a better assignment in the agency.  The safe house is breached by the men who were trying to kill Frost in order to retrive information he has that they don’t want to be seen.

Denzel Washington once again plays a bad guy…a role he is actually pretty good at playing.   He won an Best Actor Oscar for his bad guy performance in 2001’s Training Day.   Ryan Reynolds redeems himself somewhat from his last two movies (The Change-Up, Green Lantern).  Both Washington and Reynolds have good chemisty together on screen and pretty good writing.   Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Source Code),  Rubén Blades (Predator 2), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgement Day) and Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff) co-star. 

The movie does get a bit muddled in the middle and it’s definitely not as good as Training Day  (if you haven’t seen it…rent it now) but the directing (Daniel Espinosa) was decent and the acting was pretty good.   It’s not a movie you have to run out and seen in theaters so I say Wait and Rent It.

The Director’s Cut vs. The Book of Eli

Mila Kunis is HOT!
Mila Kunis is HOT!

This week on the Director’s Cut, we review the new Denzel Washington film, The Book of Eli. Oddly enough, something surprising happens… we all said that Ollie should shave his nuts with a fork. We also count down the top 10 religious movies. Unfortunately, Davenport’s neck deep in his new video game release so we weren’t able to get a new pick, but you can check out what he’s picked in the past. Also, we finally eat the bacon-chocolate (bacolate) bar that’s been sitting in the studio for two months and we read your listener mail. Guess who gets sick (not because of the mail).  Last but not least, Dan comes up with a new, brilliant idea for a new podcast… Ollie wasn’t thrilled. Listen and find out what it was. It’s the Director’s Cut, the guy’s show about movies.

Baocolate bars are hot?
Bacolate bars are hot?

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Davenport’s Pick This Week in…

2006: Happiness

2007: Battle Royale

2008: Flight of The Conchords: Season 1

2009: Dangerous Seductress