{"id":677,"date":"2007-05-18T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/18\/the-cinema-review-180507\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T02:35:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T02:35:08","slug":"the-cinema-review-180507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/05\/18\/the-cinema-review-180507\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cinema Review: Zodiac, Black Snake Moan & Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zodiac<\/strong> (15)
\n\"Zodiac<\/a> Director David Fincher<\/a> finally returns after a 5 year absence with this terrific police procedural drama about the Zodiac killings<\/a> that plagued San Francisco<\/a> in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

Jake Gyllenhaa<\/a>l stars as Robert Graysmith<\/a>, a cartoonist on the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, which was the newspaper a serial killer sent cryptic cyphers based on the Zodiac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Robert Downey Jnr<\/a> plays the paper’s reporter assigned to the case and Mark Ruffalo<\/a> is the detective who has to solve it. Ambitious and meticulously filmed it is one of the best films to come out this year.<\/p>\n

> Official website for Zodiac<\/a>
\n> Find out showtimes for Zodiac via Google Movies<\/a>
\n> Read other reviews of Zodiac at Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n


\nBlack Snake Moan<\/strong> (18)
\n\"Black<\/a> A strange drama about a nymphomaniac (Christina Ricci<\/a>) in a Southern town who is heartbroken when her soldier boyfriend (Justin Timberlake<\/a>) goes off on a tour of duty.<\/p>\n

After sleeping around she ends up beaten up by the side of a road where a religious divorced man (Samuel L Jackson<\/a>) takes her in. The only catch is that he chains her to the radiator in order to cure her of her wild sexual impulses.<\/p>\n

Directed by Craig Brewer<\/a> (who was behind last year’s Hustle and Flow<\/a>) this is a strange but engaging drama. It features Jackson’s best role in quite some time with a character who is more rounded than you might think and Ricci manages to convey a heart beneath her crazy exterior.<\/p>\n

> Official website for Black Snake Moan<\/a>
\n> Read more reviews at Metacritic<\/a>
\n> Get local showtimes in you local area via Google Movies<\/a><\/p>\n


\nJoe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten<\/strong> (15)
\nAn illuminating and hugely engaging documentary about the late Clash<\/a> frontman Joe Strummer<\/a>. Directed by Julien Temple<\/a> (who was also behind the excellent 2001 Sex Pistols<\/a> documentary The Filth and the Fury<\/a>) it examines his early life, his time in the seminal rock band and his later ‘wilderness’ years.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a><\/p>\n

Many friends and luminaries such as Mick Jones<\/a>, Bono<\/a>, John Cusack<\/a> and Jim Jarmusch<\/a> are interviewed (usually around a campfire). A heartfelt and moving portrait, it is essential viewing for music fans. For those who aren’t, it is still well worth a look.<\/p>\n

> Official website for Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten<\/a>
\n> Get local showtimes via Google Movies<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to The Cinema Review<\/strong> podcast here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-05-18-94570.mp3]\n

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Zodiac (15) Director David Fincher finally returns after a 5 year absence with this terrific police procedural drama about the Zodiac killings that plagued San Francisco in the late 1960s. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Robert Graysmith, a cartoonist on the San Francisco Chronicle, which was the newspaper a serial killer sent cryptic cyphers based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}