Out to own today:
Are You Here
 | “I’m not arguing with Operation Crayfish, it’s just that it’s over-funded,“ Steve Dallas (Owen Wilson) to Ben Baker (Zach Galifiankis) YOU ARE HERE (as it was originally titled) must be on the list of most disappointing movies of 2013. It stuns that the creator of MAD MEN, Matthew Weiner, could make his feature film directing debut result in such an incoherent mess. Ideas, themes and characters are all nonsensical. His iconic TV show couldn’t be further in terms of nuance and elegance of thought. [To read more, click here.] |
Felony
 | “Time and the world swallow events,” Carl Summer (Tom Wilkinson) to Malcolm Toohey (Joel Edgerton) Mainstream movie justice says that you commit a crime you pay the price. Audience reassurance through a karmic realigning of the universe. Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel ‘Crime and Punishment’ set the benchmark for tension through guilt. Woody Allen regularly delves into similar waters (CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, MATCH POINT, etc.). Though ultimately it is one of eventually paying the price. Legal fairness is par the course as seen in the plethora of cop television shows. Then along come four modern projects that have shaken up the moral crime conundrum dissection: THE SHIELD, THE WIRE, DEXTER and BREAKING BAD. Everything now is measured consciously or inadvertently against them. [To read more, click here.] |
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