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05. Oct, 2007 
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The Good Night
The Stuff That Dreams Are Sorta Made Of
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I pity poor Jake Paltrow. His sister and mother are both top notch actresses and his deceased father left behind a purty nice resume of his own, includin giving the world The White Shadow. So what’s a boy to do when entertain’ the masses is your birthright? I guess you would have no other choice eggcept to give filmmaking the old college try, and with Jake’s directorial debut, The Good Night, he does just that, putting on display how much of a freshman he truly is. Jake’s simple student project about escaping the real world in dreams is equipped with the best tools in the shed, by way of a blue ribbon cast any Hollywood director would cream over: the aforementioned sibling Gwyneth, Penélope Cruz, Danny DeVito (who may not exactly be cream worthy, but…) and two of England’s brightest comedic talents, Martin Freeman and Simon Pegg. The tools aren’t rusty, but the house they’re building is a starter home, not somewhere you’d want to hang your hat forever. OK, I promise I’ll stop with the analogies. Btw, did you ever notice that you can’t spell ‘analogies’ without the word ‘anal’? That’s edward james almost as cool as ‘assassination’ having two asses! Anywho, I wouldn’t say that the film was a total loss, as some of the dream sequences were beautifully constructed, but Jake, after watchin’ your pedestrian Good Night, I wish you good luck
Direct Snap: Gwyneth has also taken a stab at directing, with a short called Dealbreaker that may actually turn into a feature length film
Netflux Capacitor: also not perfect, but much more dreamy and still worth the peepage is Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep [TWS review|Trailer]
John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): Sum Merit But No Stinking Badges
Night opens today in limited theaters
until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
