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A Little Celebrity Look-A-Like Interlude
First let’s have a little celebrity lookalike fun before we discuss Nuclear Proliferation. Does anyone else think these women could be two sets of triplets? January Jones Kristen Bell Kelly Menighan Hensley (Mad Men) (Forgetting Sarah Marshall & When in Rome) (As the World Turns) Katy Perry Zoey Deschanel Lily Allen (pop singer) (500 Days of Summer) (alternative music singer) Okay, now who wants to talk highly enriched plutonium and mass destruction!!! I discuss Lucy Walker’s documentary Countdown to Zero, on the Philadelphia Film Society Blog Click HERE to read it on PFS site.
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Commentary – Inception
Dreaming is one of the most Universal experiences the human race shares. How many times have we said to each other, " I had a dream last night that...." We take dreaming as a matter of course, whether we're the type to fly in our dreams, have more dreams remembered, or more dreams forgotten, more based in reality vs fantasy, nightmares vs oh what a good dream.
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Commentary – Jonah Hex
PFS held a preview of Jonah Hex on Wednesday, June 16th. For those of you as in the dark as I was, Jonah Hex is a Sci-Fi, Western DC comic book character. I don’t believe Josh Brolin who plays the lead character will be as immortalized as Jonah Hex as Robert Downey Jr is as Iron Man, but then again, everyone knows my lust and love for the latter makes me biased. Read Tinsel & Tine Jonah Hex film commentary on the Philadelphia Film Society website.
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Commentary – Cyrus & John C. Reilly Q&A
How great was it that PFS got John C. Reilly to come to the preview screening of his film Cyrus – Really great! The screening was packed with PFS members who are fans of Reilly’s work and Reilly was laid back with good quips for the audience at the Q & A following the film. (read Q&A highlights below) I had seen a trailer for Cyrus, but hadn’t read any reviews from Sundance. The trailer led me to believe it was a total comedy, maybe not as broad as Step Brothers, but close. If you’re looking for that type of movie, then you’ll be disappointed in Cyrus, but if…
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Commentary – The Secret In Their Eyes
I highly recommend seeing Juan Jose Campanella’sThe Secret In Their Eyes, (winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film – Argentina). If you read the reviews or even the synopsis, it makes the film sound too complicated and slow. True, it is a hearty soup of genre’s – Film Noir, Murder Mystery, Drama, Love Story, Crime Novel, but the ingredients compliment each other, never one overpowering the other. (pictured Ricardo Darín & Soledad Villamil)The subtitles are written as if nothing is lost in translation, particularly the surprising humor. The story within a story, storytelling has been done a million times before, but in this case it’s done…
