You know those movies that have really cool ideas but then they don’t really deliver or follow through with them but instead choose to focus on a forced love story? Well, The Invention of Lying is almost that movie, but it has just enough smarts to make it worth watching...

I watched both Smokin’ Aces Blu-ray films over a single weekend so comparisons between the two will be abundant. The second film, released direct to DVD/BD, copies and pastes the basic plot elements of the first film: of a group of assassins seeking to kill one particular guy. It replaces the glitz and glamour of a Las Vegas penthouse and its victim of a coked up showman with a secret bunker beneath a bar and an old guy in a wheelchair...

I went into Smokin’ Aces blind. I knew nothing of the movie apart from what was on the back cover. It was a little hard to get into at first; I was presented with a varied cast of characters, quickly flipping back and fourth between them while trying to figure out what was going on and how they all relate. I must admit I got a little confused...

A Serious Man is the kind of film that requires a second watch to catch all of its subtleties...