Edgy MD

A great power in the region goes down. Several strongmen and their muscle rush to fill the void. [fimg=600:234yta7k]http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Hobbit-Battle-of-the-Five-Armies-poster-9-691x1024.jpg[/fimg:234yta7k]

Rich and entitled Parisian couple are at loose ends when their longtime maid abruptly quits. They hire a young Spanish replacement. She becomes an object of fascination for the husband, who breaks some sort of code of his class by insinuating himself into the lives of all the maids living in squalor on the top floor of his apartment building. Set in the early sixties, but it seemingly could have been any time, because as horribly snotty as these people are, their fashion sense is impeccable. nearly flawless. Frenchies.

It's listed as a February 2014 release in the US on the list I saw. How does the Academy judge US films with earlier foreign releases?

Now, wait. I know you're one of the few others (only other?) to see The Lunchbox.

I count 15 releases from 2014 which I've seen. The Grand Budapest Hotel The Lunch Box Guardians of the Galaxy *** Birdman The Edge of Tomorrow The Lego Movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier The Monuments Men *** St. Vincent A Long Way Down* Noah Chef Snowpiercer* Trust Me* Million Dollar Arm* * I didn't make it all the way through.

Wow, a 4 1/2 and a 5. I'm all alone on this.

Just re-watched Game 6. Hate to go against the grain on this one, but I liked that one better.

Hmm... I'm still chewing on this. One curious thing is that it has a lot of the same elements as Keaton's only other lead role of the last twenty years, Game 6 � burned out playwright wrestling with his desperate need for validation, saucing himself in Broadway watering holes, picking fights with critics, butting heads with an Avenger, watching his rival starting a relationship with his daughter, and a looming specter of handgun violence.

The magic of Once seemed to largely come out of the virtue-by-necessity reality of big-shot stars pulling out of the movie, and the budget-tapped producers casting non-star musicians instead of forcing the big shots to fake it. So the film-maker gets another shot, with more juice to get (and keep) big shot movie stars attached, and the magic wasn't there for me. Ruffalo gets points for being one of those handful of actors who you get the idea you can smell through the screen --- call them the sons of Nick Nolte. It's not the greatest of virtues, but ... . That's not the only grace, but generally, the thing felt forced and formulaic. Like Disney saw the receipts on Once, and said"Let's knock that off, except with Disney values and a Disney budget." Keira Knightly wasn't a disaster, but by not having the Once-like courage of actually finding a young singer-and/or-songwriter you believe in, and instead cast this big shot with an established Q-rating, it kind of betrays it's own spirit and message, because that's exactly part of what the movie indicts the music industry for. Some good-but-not-great music, and a sorta ham-handed critique of the music business where it is now.

You know, you may have asked the same thing about the En'erprise, but JJ was on the case. [fimg=650:rcdejg9a]http://judebgallery.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/img_8178.jpg[/fimg:rcdejg9a]

Until they tell me the Millennium Falcon runs on a Force engine, I would think not.

No doubt it stores absorbed solar/stellar energy.

Somebody tell me why they didn't get the Birdman poll up earlier, because I went to this instead and this stunk like a hog farm.

Melissa McCarthy is a newly single mom moving into a small Brooklyn home on a postage-stamp-sized plot. Bill Murray is the crotchedy shlub who lives next door and ends up looking after her son. Wind it up and let it go. [fimg=400:173u15l9]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2072032/thumbs/o-ST-VINCENT-POSTER-900.jpg?6[/fimg:173u15l9]

I agree that his ex-wife's home and Hattie's home are the best scene's in the movie. Absolutely drunk with subtext.

I just realize I watched Minority Report about two months ago. I can't recall if we bailed or stuck with it.

If two makes a festival. The other one (not great or anything) was better. I think it's an "Available on Netflix" Festival.

If you're that loyal to your supermarket novels, I guess it can piss you off. But defend something worth defending. It was so anachronistic, I wouldn't have been surprised if they just decided to change Reacher's name to Dalton and call it Roadhouse 2. For a non-nudey film, it had a hilariously ridiculous delivery system set up to present heaving heroine bosom. Stupid plot holes. Why does this terrorizing massacre of a crime not bring in the FBI? Why does a single Sidney Portier wannabe of a detective get to work such a huge case on his own? How does a criminal organization building such a sophisticated operation give themselves away by trailing the hero with a vehicle registered to the corporation behind the conspiracy? They also pronounce Audi as "AW-dee," instead of "OW-dee," which may be correct for all I know, but pisses me off nonetheless.

Tom Cruisey plays a drifter who makes justice on his own terms, in perhaps the most eighties film not produced in the eighties.

Rotten Tomatos Critics Rating: 95% Rotten Tomatos Audience Rating: 75% Us? We bailed early. Didn't even stay with it long enough to give it an honest rating.

In a seemingly unhappy future, the earth's remaining population is confined to a train, slowly circling the globe. Classes are divided by which car you ride on. Chris Evans, I gather, is a passenger who doesn't like that arrangement. I'm not particularly sure, as I haven't seen the film yet. But I'M GOIN' IN!! [fimg=450:oa92bokz]https://fanart.tv/fanart/movies/110415/movieposter/snowpiercer-5344811ea1884.jpg[/fimg:oa92bokz]

Well, I guess, it got the job done. I mean it was coherent, which is more than I can say for most futurist warped-reality plots. And the battlefield topography all made sense, which is something else that often loses me. Whether it made me think more fully and deeply about the nature and stakes of war and species survival, or the nature of time and reality and experience and consciousness... not so much on that. But you know, popcorn movie. From that regard, it gets the job done. Side note: The general in charge of the invasion was Brendan Gleeson. A major multinational military invasion in the not-too-distant future and the Irish are in charge? Not bloody likely.

An increasingly sequel-dependent Pixar has announced a fourth installment on the franchise. Rumors ebberywhere about plot concepts.

As the world defends itself against an alien invasion, Tomato Cruise plays a military officer specializing in PR who gets thrown into a combat regiment, despite no combat experience or training, about to be launched in an important assault that's expected to be the turning point in the war. (It's clearly set up as an historical parallel to D-Day --- beach assault in France launched by a multi-national force headquartered in Britain, against a foe expanding out of Germany, as the Russians push back from the East.) The wrinkle comes as the protagonist is killed, as expected, within minutes of the landing, but then wakes up at the beginning of the day, before the assault, and it starts all over again. It's Groundhog Day, except in the near future, with enormous guns and powerful telemetry suits. Like a kid in the arcade with a pocket full of quarters, he does only modestly better with each return to the battlefield, until he enlists the help of Emily Blunt, a hardened war hero who he has to re-introduce himself to every day. Like most latter day Cruise-missiles launched on a weary public, the film did much better on the international market than domestically. The studio gleaned that the soap opera-y title was a big part of the reason, and so quickly redirected to feature the film's tag lines more prominently than the title in the second-generation film posters and DVD packaging.

If a film tanks, they subtly distance themselves from the role of the film in the larger continuity, as they did with Hulk. I have little doubt that Guardians was positioned in exactly that way --- to zig towards within the greater universe if it succeeded, or to zag away from if it failed. The whole deck, of course, gets re-shuffled if they successfully acquire Spider-Man or The Fantastic Four or X-Men.