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The Wrestler
Part of this year's buzz highlights Mickey Rourke's come back performance and Marisa Tomei's hot, 40 year old, nude body.The former is worth the hubbub - Rourke is truly living this role! The latter is a bit overrated - the poor woman is emaciated in this film. No. Don't go assuming I'm a Mo' Nique that hates "Skinny Bitches"...
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Revolutionary Road
April (Kate Winslet), once an aspiring actress and Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) once an aspiring dreamer, marry and unwittingly fall into the American Dream. We come to understand they thought they'd be able to do it better; you know the whole 2.5 kids, nice home, nice neighbors, homemaking, safe job etc... That somehow the settling down thing would look different on them...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
As expected, the make-up and CGI are on the mark. Brad Pitt found a believable tone playing a wizened, childlike, young, old man. Then we are treated to the sexy, devoted-to-one-woman, Pitt that defines his off screen life, but so rarely is seen on screen, as he likes to remove all traces of sex appeal playing weird characters like Chad Feldheimer in Burn After Reading.
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Australia
I wanted the movie “Australia” to do well in the box office for two reasons: I love big, sweeping, epic love stories and Baz Lurhman is really adorably sexy! However, it doesn’t appear as if his 100 million dollar dream come true is box office gold. There’s been very little buzz during or since Thanksgiving. I saw it in a nearly empty theater, normally at Christmastime all movie showings are relatively full. It’s been more than 10 years since “Titanic”, I would think audiences would be hungry for a film of this romantic scope and feel. Especially in light of the economy, shouldn’t people want to escape into a cinematic…
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Fear(s) of the Dark
Art Imitates Fear(s) of the Dark is an example of why I think there should be a sliding scale price for certain genres of movies/films, rather than the time of day you attend the showing. This film is very creative, a little disturbing, a boon for the participating artists, and not at all worth $8.50. The film is an animated feature of six shorts by illustrators and comic artists (Blutch, Marie Caillou, Pierre de Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire, and Charles Burns). The only guidelines the artists were given was that the film was to be in black and white and that the common theme was… fears of the dark.…
