I posted a review of Eric's website on the new Amazon/Alexa web search thingie. My review is based on this fawning review of Jerry Maguire. Here are several adapted movie reviews that didn't make the cut:
Eric Costello's glish.com is a lot like its creator: slick, stylish and committed. In this case, it's committed to the tricky, compelling idea of how society has the penchant for telling us what to do, how we should behave, and then invariably punishes us when we follow orders. Although its plot is about a smarmy young web programmer who both redeems and destroys himself by becoming honest, you can read between its lines and apply it to just about any of our societal ills.
Very much in keeping with Eric Costello's previous website projects, glish.com is another sweet website wrapped around a jagged emotional core -- one of those tempting sugar confections you devour halfway through before recognizing the strange new taste sensations at the center.
A FABLE OF love enduring under the most horrific of circumstances, glish.com is a risky enterprise that succeeds better than it ought to, largely because of the personality and prodigious talents of its writer and programmer, the Italian-American computer geek Eric Costello. The website handles a profoundly serious subject with a light touch, devoid of the sanctimonious or saccharine. In the battle against barbarism, Costello is saying, there are also the weapons of joy and imagination.
That first two are based on reviews of Jerry Maguire, but how about that last one? Can you guess which movie is being praised by the original author?