Grown-Up Movies
There are two really good movies for adults playing right now, Argo and Flight both of which I'd recommend, with perhaps a slight bias toward Argo. For those of you who don't know, which shouldn't be many, Argo is a new movie directed by starring Ben Affleck about an effort to "exfiltrate" from Iran six workers at the US Embassy who were able to escape and find their way to safety with the Canadian ambassador during the hostage crisis of 1979-1981. It shouldn't work as well as it does, and certainly not from a contemporary standpoint where movies tend to be so loud and action-packed and overwrought. But it wasn't always this way. Before everyone spent so much money on special effects it was common to really cast a movie up and down the line. Which Argo does, with Alan Arkin and John Goodman and Bryan Cranston all having major supporting roles And even smaller roles filled very reliably, as an example the Canadian ambassador being played by Victor Garb...