Just the Ticket #1: Somewhere
Following a 144-issue revival on Blogger that spans everything from MySpace and Today.com to its origins in Yahoo! Groups , SW@ Ticket is finally growing up and catching up to today's media by dropping the SW@! Of course, I will still be sharing Piece Offerings and looking through the Sniperscope from time to time, and would not be a man of my word if I didn't deliver a review of the Dark Tower Saga or continue with the Dead Parade as promised. But for now I begin anew with a review that's Just the Ticket : FROM April 25,2011: Somewhere , starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning (a dead-ringer for her sister at that age), is a mostly uneventful indie film about a washed-up action star whose pointless life is disrupted for the better when his abandoned daughter comes to live with him and his chummy roommate ( Jackass 's Chris Pontius). The viewer is first annoyed by long stretches of footage (a Ferrari endlessly circling a dirt track, strippers pole-dancing ...