I just finished watching In The Electric Mist, which is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray, based on the bestselling novel by James Lee Burke. In the Electric Mist features Tommy Lee Jones leading a talented cast through the Louisiana bayou and the New Orleans criminal underground investigating a series of horrific murders while uncovering long forgotten secrets of the prejudice south.
Jones plays veteran detective Dave Robicheaux, Dirty Harry hunts down a serial killer in the Deep South. Although the story line has obvious plot turns, I was engaged throughout the film. John Goodman is fun to watch as he plays a greasy, no-good-son-of-a…remarkably well. One of my favorite actresses, Mary Steenburgen, which we hardly ever see in films, effortlessly and smoothly plays Robicheaux’s wife, who draws out the kinder side of Jone’s character and you forget about Dirty Harry similarities.
I just finished watching In The Electric Mist,which is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray, based on the bestselling novel by James Lee Burke. In the Electric Mist features Tommy Lee Jones leading a talented cast through the Louisiana bayou and the New Orleans criminal underground investigating a series of horrific murders while uncovering long forgotten secrets of the prejudice south.
Jones plays veteran detective Dave Robicheaux, Dirty Harry hunts down a serial killer in the Deep South. Although the story line has obvious plot turns, I was engaged throughout the film. John Goodman is fun to watch as he plays a greasy, no-good-son-of-a…remarkably well. One of my favorite actresses, Mary Steenburgen, which we hardly ever see in films, effortlessly and smoothly plays Robicheaux’s wife, who draws out the kinder side of Jone’s character and you forget about Dirty Harry similarities.
Screenhead has In the Electric Mist DVD available for a giveaway. Please post your name and we will pick the winner Thursday, April 9, 2009.
Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones are joining Ben Affleck to star in The Company Men, an independent drama about the impact of corporate downsizing has on casualties and survivors.
John Wells wrote the script and will direct. Filming starts in April in Boston.
Affleck plays a corporate crackerjack whose Porsche and six-figure salary becomes extinct after he gets laid off. Costner plays his brother-in-law, a well-thought of drywall installer who gives him a construction job.
Jones plays a senior partner in the firm, a honorable man who struggles with the avaricious transgressions of his partners.
It’s a wonder that classic novelist Ernest Hemmingway’s novels are not getting remade these days. His novels are robust with manly stoicism and strong visuals. Perhaps his ultra-manliness, full of gritted teeth, rampant alcoholism, and all sorts of wrestling with nature and fellow men, is too much for the modern metrosexual man. So, it comes as a breath of fresh air to see Hollywood take on Hemmingway again, with tough-guy Tommy Lee Jones directing, writing, and starring in ‘Islands in the Stream’.
Now, one reason Hemmingway novels are not being remade is that because previous attempts to adapt his books have not been very good. In fact, Islands in the Stream was adapted already, in 1977, with Franklin J Schaffner directing George C Scott through a messy film that tries to stretch its plot into action, and fails miserably. The problem is that Islands in the Stream is possibly Hemingway’s most contemplative (and in my humble opinion, his best) story, full of melancholy and impotence. It’s a story of a man’s man and his inability to be a father. It also has one of the best closing lines of any book. To try and inject action and adventure into it, is to miss the point.
And fortunately, Tommy Lee Jones seems to recognise that. In an interview with the Sunday Times UK last month, Jones admits that the 1977 version was a “bad movie”, and that his version will be “a family film”. I think it’s safe to say that he means that the story will focus on the theme of family, rather than a PG-rated flick about learning lessons.
about the impact of corporate downsizing has on casualties and survivors.