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Commentary – CONTAGION
Only the virus wouldn't be the killer, that would only start the panic; the killer would be the vaccination or supposed cure. She had a 19 page document outlining that the World Health Organization, backed by the banking industry would be behind this conspiracy and that they will have the power in the face of such an epidemic, to take over completely and have authority over every government to enforce vaccinations...
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Commentary – THE DEBT
If our civilization continues into the 22nd Century and we evolve into beings who finally respect and view each other as equals; we undoubtedly will still be telling stories of these two most heinous times of our history – Slavery and the Holocaust. There are many societal, economical, historical and psychological reasoning’s for the continual re-examining of these atrocities; but artistically, every time these topics are seen through the eyes of new characters the story is looked at from yet another perspective. As such, is The Debt by director John Madden (Shakespeare In Love), based on the novel Ha-Hov by Assaf Bernstein and Ido Rosenblum. The Debt was my weekly…
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Commentary – BEGINNERS
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at Mike Mill’s BEGINNERS Beginners is a love story: love between a father and son / son and mother / a man and woman / a man and his father’s dog. Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is a handsome, talented commercial artist, who has recently lost his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer) to cancer. The story is told in a timeline that jumps around between Oliver’s present in which he’s falling in love with a winsome, French actress, Anna (Mélanie Laurent from Inglourious Basterds), his childhood memories of a slightly off kilter mother (Mary Page Keller), and a time of about 3-5 years ago, when his 75 year old…
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BRIDESMAIDS
SNL wacky woman, Kristen Wiig has co-written a surprisingly textured humorous tale of woe. Directed by: Paul Feig Bridesmaids mixes a crazy cast of characters, laughter and heart to create a pleasing pre-summer bouquet of comedy. Life began crumbling for pastry chef, Annie when her bakery stopped making her dough ($$). Soon after closing the shop, her boyfriend leaves her, she’s forced to moved in with her mother, and finds herself in a degrading – no friends, just benefits relationship with a self-inflated prick (Jon Hamm). Now on top of everything, she’s got to muster up money, energy and enthusiasm for her best friend from childhood, Lillian (Mya Rudolph) who’s…
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Pom Wonderful presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
What I like most about this documentary is Spurlock himself. One scene in the film has him going through a rigorous Q & A session with a brand specialist to come up with his own brand in order to sell himself to the brands he wants to sell the movie to. (make sense?) Anyway, what they come up with is that Spurlock's own brand is Mindful and Playful, and this is a very good assessment...
