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REVIEW: Jesse Eisenberg Keeps 30 Minutes or Less Ticking, But Barely

Jesse Eisenberg’s performance in 30 Minutes or Less is like a mirror of something you’ve seen before in a movie you’ve seen before: As an unambiguously unambitious pizza-delivery guy who’s forced to rob a bank, is he riffling through the deck and pulling out the same old cards, perhaps in a slightly different order? Or is he adding subtle variations to a type of character he’s played many times previously, biding his time until he can get another role like the perfectly calibrated one he played in The Social Network ?

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A Somewhat Gentle Man Trailer: Stellan Skarsgård Tries to Play Nice with the Mob

It seems like the Gangster-comedy sub-genre should be scraping the bottom of a dry well by now, but they just keep coming! And while A Somewhat Gentle Man indeed looks like rehash of dark comedy we’ve seen before, the fact that character actor and Lars Von Trier regular Stellan Skarsgård ( Breaking the Waves , Mamma Mia! ) plays the lead offers hop that maybe this Swedish import has more to offer than the trailer suggests.

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What Should You Do If You See a Bike Thief?

Image credit: hellobo , used under Creative Commons license. We’ve seen before how few people will confront a bike thief , and we’ve also heard the advice of a former bike thief on how to keep your ride safe . (Let’s not forget Hal, the dreadlocked mechanic, and his grading of New Yorkers bike locking abilities either.) Now James Walsh over at The Guardian’… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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