Wanting to wind down the week and dreading more visuals of what’s happening on the US gulf coast (trust me, I’m not ignoring it…it’s been running through my brain every minute for the past five days), we watched two of our Zip movies:

• In Good Company (imdb | rotten tomatoes | metacritic) wasn’t quite what I expected. The trailers made it look like a typical boy-meets-girl, father doesn’t approve, hijinks and angst ensue kind of movie, but it wasn’t that. It focused on the relationship between Topher Grace and Dennis Quaid, both of whom were very good; the relationship between Grace and Scarlett Johansson was secondary. It was a good easy flick: not heavy by any means, but not stupid either. Entertaining, we’ll call it.
• Equilibrium (imdb | rotten tomatoes) was like one part Brave New World, a splash of Fight Club and a healthy serving of The Matrix. I had high hopes for the action after the initial shootout-in-the-dark, but the rest of the fights just looked silly. Predictable, wooden & old news. I’m not even sure how this one got on my list…I think it was from an article I saw about underrated movies. Somebody screwed the pooch on that one, says I.