Knight and Day
June 24, 2010 by Rubin Safaya · 2 Comments
Guy meets girl. Guy plants stuff on girl. Girl gets through airport security an unwitting accomplice. Guy kidnaps girl. Girl gets hysterical. Girl falls in love with guy anyway. This is the Stockholm Syndrome plot of Knight and Day, and countless other action/rom-com/adventure flicks that treat the woman as the tag-a-long idiot, rather than a [...]
My Sister’s Keeper
June 26, 2009 by Rubin Safaya · 2 Comments
Kate Fitzgerald (Sofia Vassilieva) isn’t a celebrity, isn’t a supermodel. She’s a 14-year old girl who has lived most of her childhood suffering from acute promyelocytic leukemia. Her sister, Anna (an uncharacteristically thoughtful performance by Abigail Breslin), was engineered in a test tube at the suggestion of their physician, Dr. Wayne (Jeffrey Markle). Some readers [...]