Caleb's Social Corner

    Holy cow. I mean, wow.  Really wow. Too bad her ex-husband James Cameron can't direct movies like this.  The Greatest Man Hunt of All Time gets told in one of, if not THE, best movie of the year, Zero Dark Thirty.   Let me just say this first of all: This one heck of a movie kids.  Not just a war movie, but a masterclass on every level from acting through Jessica Chastain, and the deadly combination of screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow.   The film is about the man hunt of Osama Bin Laden all through the Middle East, focusing on the efforts of Maya, a CIA agent who works day and night to try and find Bin Laden.  The film follows her journey from the first days of torturing prisoners for information, to the final call on Bin Laden's whereabouts that could make or end her career(which makes it because we know the ending).    We see the wheelings and dealings people had to make to move the missions forward, and how t...

   Love is no walk in the park.  Love is hard, grueling, heart wrenching, and destructive at times.   But that one moment where it works, that one night where the magic is real, it makes it all worth while. Love is shown in this more realistic take in Derek Cianfrance's film, Blue Valentine.    Blue Valentine goes away from Hollywood love stories, the a typical cliches of finding true love, red hearts and butterflies and roses, to a emotionally brutal, flat colored tale of a struggling love that is failing. The story follows a couple, played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams,  from when they first meet to years later in their marriage.  We see their love move from that puppy dog stage from dating, to this almost stale, angry stage in the film.  We see their fighting affection for their child, and all the difficulties they have overcome, and all the ones that are going on in their marriage.    The film has an incredibly bl...