While driving through Los Angeles the other day, I saw a large, obnoxious billboard for the upcoming Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz movie Knight and Day (2010). While I had previously seen trailers for the rather awful looking film, I had not noticed, until seeing the billboard, that the film was directed by James Mangold. I asked my wife to confirm what I thought my eyes had seen and she answered with a sad nod. While I haven't seen every one of his films (most notably Walk the Line---I have a predisposition against biopics), I have always found myself unexpectedly pleased with them. I wasn't a huge fan of Susanna Kaysen's book, but Mangold's treatment of Girl, Interrupted (1999), thanks to Angelina Jolie's performance, was surprising. More significantly, I initially had mixed feelings about his more genre specific offerings: Identity (2003) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007). Yet, the casting of both films...
- 6/15/2010
- by Drew Morton
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