Drive

Saw the mighty Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) in Drive last Sunday at the Gold Class. Quikflix has an interview with him in which it appears there is only one more year to go for Walter White. Probably just as well since he's been looking more and more evil in the promo pictures and any more might break his face.

I could get used to (have got used to) the comfy lay back chairs, intimate cinemas and flunkies bringing food and drink at Gold Class. Good film too. Four stars. Supposedly Ryan Gosling plays the lead, very quietly, and Cranston plays a supporting role but pretty much makes the film for me. The plot:

A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

Very calm overall with lashings of sudden graphic violence.

One of the major hoods is played by the very distinctive Ron Perlman who I last remember as the less than attractive Salvatore in Name of the Rose which is a worry since that was 1986 and he's been working all that time since. He was also Hellboy apparently. Perhaps I haven't been paying attention?

Should I mention that Umberto Eco wrote TNOTR and is such an erudite writer he makes my head explode in desperation at my own ignorance? Probably not. But also a good film, especially for medieval mystery and Sean Connnery buffs (he plays Brother Baskerville from England - a little homage to Sherlock Holmes there).