Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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I don't like the trailer

I don't like the trailer for The DaVinci Code at all. Does anyone? Ron Howard's thriller (due 5.16.06 from Columbia) might be a clas- sic, but the trailer makes it seem like shameless formulaic dreck. That shot of an alarmed Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou running together and holding hands...is there a more detestable action- thriller cliche in the book? I still say Hanks looks too old and too big for Tatou -- she's this little French Tinkerbell and he's this tall, hulking guy with crow's feet. And that naked bald guy lying dead on the floor of the Louvre, a victim of a sacrifical killing... c'mon! They're obviously aiming at devout Christians who are still invested in the legend of Yeshua's divine avoidance of female companionship, blah, blah. I don't live on that planet. I don't live in that solar system...proudly.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 31, 2005 at 09:34 AM

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