I’ve seen way to many movies over the past week while lying on the couch with a sinus infection. While I watched This is Spinal Tap for the first time (What in the world?!), the film I most enjoyed was The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I did a brief review over at rednoW.com.

At the center of the story is the relationship between the legendary Jesse James and the younger Robert Ford. Ford grows up hearing and reading stories about the James gang. He idolizes Jesse as a modern day Robin Hood, stealing from the wealthy to provide for those on the loosing side of the war. In reality, Pitt portrays a greedy and vindictive man who is prone to brutalize those closest to him. In an Academy-nominated role by Affleck, Ford slowly realizes his idol’s faults while being drawn even closer into James’s neurotic confidences.

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