Ed Travis





Full Metal Jacket
Who Is Your Master?
Your @$$ Belongs To The Corps

The concept of being stripped of your identity and given a new one brings to mind the question of who your master is. Hartman’s goal as a Drill Sergeant was to take all the men and, no matter their previous allegiances, make sure that their master is the United States. Or better yet, the Marine Corps.


The Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson's Masterpiece, Criterion Blu-ray
A Hilarious, and Hard Fought Reconciliation Story

The Royal Tenenbaums welcomes us into a fantastical world and then proves to us that it is, in fact, the real world. The Tenenbaum family gets a second chance to make things right, bury the hatchets, and become whole again. It shows us that things like wholeness and reconciliation are possible in a world this ridiculous.


Get The Gringo
In A World Of Criminals, What Defines The Hero?
Blu-ray Classic Gibson Should've Gotten A Theatrical Release

Maybe Driver is distinguishable as a hero in the corrupt universe of Get The Gringo because he is willing to sacrifice himself for the well being of those he loves. On the flipside, one of the lead villains, Javi (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), is specifically out to kill our lead characters for his own benefit.


Hijacked
Couture Is Expendable
Blu-ray Greed Sets a Hijacking In Motion

Hopefully, this isn’t the best Randy Couture movie you see this summer, because Hijacked is a barely watchable piece of semi-entertainment.


Just Cause
By-The-Numbers Thriller On Blu-ray
Explores Death Penalty Issues With The Subtlety of a Hammer

I’ve probably been a little too harsh on Just Cause. It is a conventional and perfectly acceptable little crime thriller. It just isn’t as good as a John Grisham story, and it fails miserably at aping Silence of the Lambs


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