When you can sit through and stay awake through a "talkies" movie after having lunch, the movie must be good.
"Shattered Glass" is no exception.
There are no explosions, no gratuitous sex scenes, no cuddly moments-- just a darn good yarn made even more interesting by the fact that it actually happened.
Revenge of the Sith's Hayden Christensen doesn't have a lightsaber in this movie, but more than makes up with it with something REAL-- good acting. Here Christensen plays Stephen Glass, an up-and-coming (read:hotshot) writer for The New Republic (TNR), dubbed "the in-flight magazine of Airforce One." The magazine doesn't have the circulation or name recall of TIME or NEWSWEEK; heck, it doesn't even have pictures. But what it lacks in popularity it makes up for it by being Washington D.C.'s most credible newsmagazine, THE publication Washington policymakers and insiders read.
So you can just imagine what happens when that credibility is attacked when one of Glass' entertaining pieces (this one on the hackers) is questioned by an online magazine. Turns out Glass, one of TNR's more charismactic storytellers, is just that-- a storyteller. As his editor (Chuck Lane, played by Kinsey's Peter Sarsgaard) digs deeper into Glass' questionable reporting, he discovers that Glass' has a talent greater than finding great stories: it's making stories up.
By itself, that doesn't sound like compelling drama, which is where the interplay between the cast (which also includes Godzilla's Hank Azaria) comes in. The acting is superb. Christensen, in particular, deserves praise for playing Glass, the likable, talented, pathological liar who spins his way into the hearts and minds of everyone in TNR.
Christensen, like the movie, is surprisingly engaging. Kudos to Ayala Cinemas, the only chain of cinemas showing the movie here.
"Shattered Glass" is no exception.
There are no explosions, no gratuitous sex scenes, no cuddly moments-- just a darn good yarn made even more interesting by the fact that it actually happened.
Revenge of the Sith's Hayden Christensen doesn't have a lightsaber in this movie, but more than makes up with it with something REAL-- good acting. Here Christensen plays Stephen Glass, an up-and-coming (read:hotshot) writer for The New Republic (TNR), dubbed "the in-flight magazine of Airforce One." The magazine doesn't have the circulation or name recall of TIME or NEWSWEEK; heck, it doesn't even have pictures. But what it lacks in popularity it makes up for it by being Washington D.C.'s most credible newsmagazine, THE publication Washington policymakers and insiders read.
So you can just imagine what happens when that credibility is attacked when one of Glass' entertaining pieces (this one on the hackers) is questioned by an online magazine. Turns out Glass, one of TNR's more charismactic storytellers, is just that-- a storyteller. As his editor (Chuck Lane, played by Kinsey's Peter Sarsgaard) digs deeper into Glass' questionable reporting, he discovers that Glass' has a talent greater than finding great stories: it's making stories up.
By itself, that doesn't sound like compelling drama, which is where the interplay between the cast (which also includes Godzilla's Hank Azaria) comes in. The acting is superb. Christensen, in particular, deserves praise for playing Glass, the likable, talented, pathological liar who spins his way into the hearts and minds of everyone in TNR.
Christensen, like the movie, is surprisingly engaging. Kudos to Ayala Cinemas, the only chain of cinemas showing the movie here.
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