The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007  R, 160 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Western
Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooklynn Proulx, Dustin Bollinger, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Sam Shepard, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Schneider, Joel McNichol, James Defelice
It's 1881 and famous bank/train robber Jesse James (Brad Pitt), at age 34, has had a turnover of gang members from retirement or having been killed. Even brother Frank (Sam Shepard) retired after the gang's last heist. Jesse even has a "day" job as a respected businessman using the name of Thomas Howard and has a trophy wife, Zee (Mary-Louise Parker), and two children. But the restless Jesse is putting together a new gang made up of second-rate gangsters, which includes young Bob (Casey Affleck) who has collected Jesse James clippings and stories since he was a small boy and idolized Jesse. Another problem that Jesse has is that there is a large bounty on him, dead or alive. As time passes, Bob becomes jealous of Jesse and with the reward he could receive, he decides to kill Jesse, which he does. An interesting study of the two men that is based on Ron Hansen's historical novel of the same name. The film received two Academy Award nominations including Best Supporting Actor (Affleck).
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The Believer 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Bean
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, A.D. Miles, Joshua Harto, Glenn Fitzgerald, Garret Dillahunt, Kris Eivers, Joel Garland
This film uses flashbacks to follow Danny Balint's (Ryan Gosling) journey from that of a Yeshiva student to a shrinkhead who joins a terrorist group that, among other atrocities, ignites dynamite under synagogues.
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The Last House on the Left 2009  R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sara Paxton, Garret Dillahunt, Aaron Paul, Spencer Treat Clark, Riki Lindhome, Martha MacIsaac, Michael Bowen, Joshua Cox, Usha Khan
John and Emma Collingwood (Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter) have just arrived with their 17-year-old daughter Mari (Sara Paxton) at their lakeside home. Mari and her friend Paige (Martha MacIsaac) get together in town and meet Justin (Spencer Treat Clark). The three of them go to Justin's seedy motel room where they are getting high when Justin's father Krug (Garret Dillahunt), his Uncle Francis (Aaron Paul), and their friend Sadie (Riki Lindhome) appear on the scene after committing a double murder. They take the girls and Justin out in the woods where they murder Paige, and Krug rapes Mari and leaves her for dead. It is a stormy night, and Krug, Sadie, Francis, and Justin find shelter at the Collingwood home. Lightning strikes, and they have lost power when Mari arrives home. When they learn what happened to Mari, Emma and John take on the savage behavior of the strangers they took into their home and plot revenge on their "guests."
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 No Country for Old Men 2007  R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Stephen Root, Rodger Boyce, Beth Grant, Ana Reeder, Boots Southerland
Based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel, this story, set in Texas during 1980, is about Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) who comes across a truckload of drugs and a case containing $2 million in the middle of a half dozen murdered bodies. Moss picks up the $2 million and takes off with the cache. But, escape will not be easy. In hot pursuit are Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) who is outmatched by sadistic, psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) who stays on Moss' trail across Texas. In this film, the Coen brothers give us a masterful story. The film received four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director(s), and Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem). Four other nominations were received.
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| 1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
2. The Believer (2001)
3. The Last House on the Left (2009)
4. No Country for Old Men (2007)
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