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Under the Skin Movie Review

Under the Skin Movie Review

I finally caught up with Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin 2013 film starring Scarlet Johansson and really enjoyed it. I liked it so much that last night I had a series of nightmares about zombies attacking a wooded neighborhood that I lived in. Good films, for me, cause you to question and don't had you the meaning of every single scene, character and theme. Glazer's theme puts the audience in an extremely limited position: We see Johansson's character going through the motions of picking up men, seducing them and bringing them home and finding out what she then does to them. We don't know why or how. The film specifically keeps answers about her origins and purpose from us and I applaud that.

Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Ever After: A Cinderella Story

With my being on crutches for another 6 weeks at the least, my wife and I wanted to sit down and watch a movie with our kids. The problem when you have a 10 and 6 year old is that they like different things and it's a challenge to find a movie that the entire family would like. (Neither of our children like scary movies or any intense freaky stuff so even the animated Sleeping Beauty with the dragon scene is out).

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Reach for the Stars Even if You Fail

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Reach for the Stars Even if You Fail

I have just come home from seeing Jodorowsky's Dune in the movies with an old friend from high school. A lot of events had to come together for me to see this movie and it so inspired me that I rushed home and am now sitting in front of the computer. I've been up since 5 am, worked all day, went to see the movie and now it's 10 pm but I need to write this all out before it slips through my mind.

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Do You Love Me? How to Find Emotional Connections and Companionship with Others

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Do You Love Me? How to Find Emotional Connections and Companionship with Others

There's a scene toward the end of the 2013 Best Picture Oscar nominated movie Her in which Theodore, played wonderfully by Joaquin Phoenix, sits on the stairs leading down to a subway. He's distraught and his eye is drawn to people coming up the stairs toward him. There are men and women, but they are all talking to the computers in their ears. These people are oblivious to those around them and are in their own little worlds. Separate and craving for love and companionship, the citizens who populate Spike Jonze's Her are unable to truly connect to people. Instead they gravitate toward artificial intelligence and begin to fall in love and form strong bonds with these bodiless virtual beings.

Review: Oz the Great and Powerful

I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful today and timing worked out well. I rushed in, grabbed a seat right during the Iron Man 3 trailer was finishing and the movie just started. Perfect timing. However, I did have a bit of sticker shock: I paid $14 for a ticket to see the film in 3D. I could write a whole post on why the price of the movie ticket wanted me to stop going to the movies. I thought $10 would be expensive enough and I misread the listing online, thinking I was attending a non-3D screening. No such luck.

The Sexual Objectification of Women in Recent Film

While away on a recent work trip, I surfed on over to HBOGO.com and saw that Sucker Punch was being highlighted until the end of the month. I had heard extremely bad reviews of the film and not being a fan of Zack Snyder's 300, I almost passed, but took a chance and watched the movie anyway.