Arts & Entertainment
'Drive' Is a Cool Crime Thriller
One of the hottest young actors in Hollywood will put you in the driver's seat for this crime thriller and dark comedy combined with a love story.
"Driver," played by Ryan Gosling, is a solitary stunt driver who works on movie sets by day and drives getaway cars at night in the movie Drive.
Driver falls for his apartment neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a mom with a small son whose father is an ex-con. The ex-con drags Driver into a robbery that goes wrong and threatens both Irene and her child. Albert Brooks plays a crime lord with a thing for forks, Ron Perlman is the Jewish gangster who does business in a pizza parlor and Bryan Cranston plays Driver's best buddy, giving this film plenty of acting horsepower.
Drive is a gritty, yet glamourous film bursting with action. European director Nicolas Refn does a wonderful job with this ultra-violent, ultra-stylish flick in which the hero falls in love with the wrong girl and winds up with a whole bag of problems.
This movie has quite a few twists and turns and a main character who has a lot of secrets. Driver has a bit of a temper, too. Just so you know, there isn't much actual driving in the film. Sure, there is a car chase here and there, but the movie is more about the questionable choices that drive people — and the ones that drive them away.
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The flick-o-meter gives Drive a solid four out of five. It is bloody, violent and even brutal at times, but it is strangely romantic, too. Plus it is only about an hour and a half long. Go check it out.
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Location:
Showtimes for "Drive" can be found in our Smyrna-Vinings Patch at at 3101 Cobb Parkway. Daily showtimes are at 11:35 a.m., 2:10 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:10 p.m. and 9:40 p.m.
After the Movie:
Don't forget that begining Friday all local McDonald's in the Smyrna-Vinings Patch will become some of the first in the U.S. to sell a brand new Happy Meal featuring apple slices and a kid's size fry in every box, according to Greater Atlanta McDonald's spokesman Jonathan Carl.
To mark the occasion, all area McDonald's restaurants will offer a "Happy Meal Happy Hour" event from 2-7 p.m. every day from Friday, through Thursday, Sept. 22, featuring a buy one, get one free deal on all Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals.
By the first quarter of 2012, McDonald's plans to include Apple Slices (apple slices, ¼ cup or ½ serving) as a standard side to the choice of Chicken McNuggets®, a Hamburger, or Cheeseburger, and choice of beverage, in which fat-free chocolate milk and 1% white milk will be options.
In addition to Apple Slices, the meal also will include a new smaller size French Fries (1.1 ounces). For those customers who prefer a side choice of apples only, two bags of apples will be available upon request.
By adding fruit in every Happy Meal, McDonald’s hopes to address a challenge children face in meeting the recommended daily consumption of produce. McDonald’s has been offering apples as a requested Happy Meal choice since 2004, and while recent research found that 88 percent of McDonald’s customers are aware of the option, only 11 percent choose apples.