On Win It All Directed by Joe Swanberg

Eddie Garret played by Jake Johnson earns his living out of betting and has always believed in the concept of easy money that  makes its way and never thought to strive hard to have his bank balance doubled up.

Eddie gets himself trapped in a situation by opening up a bag which has been left at his place by one of his mates involved in betting and some sort of other crimes before getting into the prison for some months. Eddie gets a decent amount to have the bag safe with him at his place. Bag contains tons of cash and other stupid equipment.

Eddie has mostly been a loser as far as his betting business was concerned and Eddie couldn’t resist himself to have the cash removed from the bag and bet as much possible and make lots of more money from the cash there in hand. At the initial stage, Eddie wins money that suddenly makes him a lavish spender and loses all what he has earned by paying off bills for other tables and he finds a good looking girl for himself at the same bar and somethings do take off from there on wards between the two of them.

As Eddie starts to lose more and more money, he decides to join his family business which is in full control of his brother and works on a deal for an amount to pay off all the losses incurred. Alongside Eddie is madly in love with Eva played by Aisslin Derbez and starts dating here and stops betting totally,

Suddenly his mate from the prison is planned for a release 6 months prior from the mentioned date by him before. Eddie gets confused as to how he can recover such a big amount. This makes his take the remaining money lying in the bag and bet as much possible and WIN IT ALL back.

It was indeed a tough exercise for him but he does manage to sail through with an heart attack while playing and luckily its all good in the end.

Good film to kill time and entertaining enough.

 

 

On Kodachrome

Kodachrome is one of those rare gems which is rarely to be seen in today’s time.

It delivers a really sweet message which is to move on in life and be close to people who you’d be losing at any point of time in life.

It’s filmed on a road trip of a father and a son and also accompanies a nurse who is to look after the most aged one in the group of three who is down with cancer and has very less number of days to live.

Kodak decides to discontinue on the processing of Kodachrome reels so Ed Harris decides to go on a trip with the last reel there with him and before his death he had to work on his last project with Kodachrome lens.

There are conflicts between Ed Harris and Jason Sudeikis who is playing his son and they do manage to develop love within themselves for each other and Ed’s dream finally ends on a good note and with final reel that had pictures of the road trip, there were a few other reels unprocessed and the same was handed over to Kodak gallery and on the delivery of the pictures Jason found pictures of him and his mother of his childhood days and Ed conveyed a message which was he always loved his family and he regrets leaving his wife and his son for years and his son had to live with his uncle and aunt before he could get into any sort of a job in his life.

Jason always hated his father so he wasn’t too keen to come on this road trip but it was a deal his father’s manager proposed which was to go on this trip and he would help Jason to have a contract signed with a popular music band which would help Jason retain his job as he has been a non performer for years. The deal doesn’t work out as Band members laugh off as Ed’s takes a leak in his pant and Jason couldn’t digest the insult and refuses to talk more to the band members and leaves.

Also in the journey, Jason develops love for Elizabeth Olsen who is the nurse for Ed and the love works out towards the end.

A very special film for many number of reasons. Thanks to Netflix and Mark Raso who directed this film.