Sunday, October 30, 2011

Green Lantern

Green Lantern

Earthling Hal Jordan is chosen to wear one of the Green Lantern rings and become part of the Green Lantern corps. Soon Earth is threatened and blah blah blah. DC in its vain attempt to keep up with Marvel film launches, brings yet another of its characters to the big screen. Picking Ryan Reynolds to play Green Lantern, undid the movie even before shooting began.

Rating: *

Take Shelter

Take Shelter
Curtis (Michael Shannon) seems like a regular fella with a loving wife (Jessica Chastain) and a daughter who dotes on him. The only trouble the family faces is the little girl’s deafness. Curtis and his wife seem to be taking this in their stride when he starts getting plagued with apocalyptic dreams of a storm front. He soon turns introspective which externally manifests itself in sullenness and strange behavior like fencing away the pet dog. The guts is the family’s struggle to deal with the unraveling of Curtis. A film that moves at a constant eerie pace with the kind of stillness that most directors don’t get right.
Rating: * * +

Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In

A man silently contemplates a larger than life picture on the wall of a stunning woman in a body suit. Suddenly the woman stirs and you realize you are looking at a close circuit camera feed on a giant LED TV. On the surface, the woman, Vera (Elena Anaya) seems to be Dr. Ledgard’s (Antonio Banderas) live in pet subject for his plastic surgery experiments. But contrary to the the title, most things in the movie are not skin deep as you find yourself immersed in a bizarre world that only Pedro Almodóvar can concoct. And even for him the film might have been a road less traveled on…

Rating: * * +