Captain Antarctica leads fierce fight to put ‘gory’ back in
‘allegory’ as the metaphorical world hurtles around the real one. Clever concept pits social structure
caricatures (wounded Hurt and swine-like Swinton) against each other on
fast-paced but farcical rollercoaster that even Christof can’t save from a
train-wreck of an ending.
Friday, January 30, 2015
Snowpiercer
Actors & Director:
Chris Evans,
Ed Harris,
Ewen Bremner,
Jamie Bell,
John Hurt,
Octavia Spencer,
Tilda Swinton
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Only Lovers Left Alive
Loki and the Ice Queen make a chillingly heart-warming
couple in the moody and brooding Lost in Transfusion. Jarmusch’s precise cinematography,
characteristically superhuman musical decisions and deliberate avoidance of
don’t-say-‘vampire’ clichés transform this interview into an epic. Wasikowska chews her screen-time wonderfully
while Yelchin quenches a thirst for comedic relief.
Actors & Director:
Anton Yelchin,
Jeffrey Wright,
John Hurt,
Mia Wasikowska,
Tilda Swinton,
Tom Hiddleston
Monday, January 26, 2015
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Sin City: Fall of a Franchise matches 300.2’s weird
chronology, imitative superficiality and nude (albeit black and white)
Green. Rourke’s Kirk Douglas is a better
match than Brolin’s Owen. Could
certainly have benefited from insurance against tragic deaths of Murphy, Duncan
and character development. SinCity: Are
you in gold eye?
Actors & Director:
Bruce Willis,
Christopher Lloyd,
Clive Owen,
Eva Green,
Jessica Alba,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Josh Brolin,
Juno Temple,
Mickey Rourke,
Ray Liotta,
Robert Rodriguez,
Rosario Dawson
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Gone Girl
Spoiler… Despite beautiful and brooding cinematography and
sound Fincher’s film falls Prisoner to lack of suspense and failure to supply
source’s surplus of suspects. Spooky
Howser and Madea-at-Law arrive too late to save either story from narrative
arrogance and improper pacing, or brilliant Ben from bending over for
Rosamund’s Pike.
Actors & Director:
Ben Affleck,
David Fincher,
Neil Patrick Harris,
Patrick Fugit,
Rosamund Pike,
Tyler Perry
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Interstellar
McConaughey masterfully pilots his space-Lincoln through a
nebulous cloud of screensavers populated by irritatingly irrational men and
ludicrously love-struck ladies. Nolan
proves that whether an epic spans neurons or neutron stars, all you need to confound
characters and viewers is a shipload of tedious (and extremely ignorable
rules). Watch gravity?
Actors & Director:
Anne Hathaway,
Casey Affleck,
Christopher Nolan,
David Oyelowo,
Ellen Burstyn,
Jessica Chastain,
Matt Damon,
Matthew McConaughey,
Michael Caine,
Timothee Chalamet
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fantastic Mr. Anderson narrowly manages self-expansion and
self-analysis over self-imitation as he disassembles a grand Dubrovnik nesting
doll to discover a delicious nut in the form of an abnormally friendly
Fiennes. A smattering of stars pepper
the convoluted plot as story and cinematography anamorph from past symmetries
to symmetrical pasts.
Actors & Director:
Adrien Brody,
Bill Murray,
Edward Norton,
Harvey Keitel,
Jason Schwartzman,
Jeff Goldblum,
Jude Law,
Owen Wilson,
Ralph Fiennes,
Saoirse Ronan,
Tilda Swinton,
Tom Wilkinson,
Wes Anderson,
Willem Dafoe
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