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Friday, September 7
In the Shadow of the Moon
The Apollo Creed
Trailer & Mo
There really are no muss see movies in life, but this doc comes purty darn close to required viewing, and that goes for every living person on this earth... including you Saudis, even though you don't have a single movie theater in your country. In The Shadow of The Moon brings together, for the first and maybe last time, the remaining crew members of the 9 Apollo missions (although media-shy Neil Armstrong declined to appear in it, his presence is still mos certainly felt), to tell their incredible tales of how they helped to fulfill JFK's challenge to our nation 'of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth' before the end of the 60s
Obviously we did make it happen, but you'll still marvel at how they could possibly do so, in a much more archaic age, where people under 18 actually had a hard time obtaining pornographic material to JO to. I'm sure many of you, like myself, will walk out of this and wish you were born in an earlier time, so that you could have experienced this remarkable journey first hand. Since that's an impossibility, this doc, complete with pristine NASA archival footage (some never seen before), comes purty darn close to making up for it. While the missions were wholly American, the accomplishments were for the world to share. If only we had a remarkable event today to bring us all together (besides Coca-Cola). While we wait for such a thing, please go see In The Shadow of The Moon. Making the leap to the theater is juss one small step for you, but one giant leap for mankindness
Buzzy Bee: one of the more colorful astronauts who appear in the doc is Buzz Aldrin, who, thankfully this time around, was not interviewed by Ali G
Us & Them: here lies the video/music mash-up of The Dark Side of Oz/Dark Side of the Rainbow (thanks to de la Roachclip, I sorta saw it work back in my college daze). Too impatient to watch it all? Rolling Snooze went thru the trouble of pickin out the better bits
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show
3:10 to Yuma
Homeboys On The Range
Trailer & Mo
I aint no fan of westerns, but if I had to choose a genre to make a comeback, I'd pick it 8 outta 10 times over musicals. While 3:10 To Yuma may not usher in a new era of unshaven dirty gunslingers, it's still way more entertaining than John Travolta dancing in a fat suit. Director James Mangold follows up his Walk The Line with a different sorta man in black tale, a solid remake of the classic '57 film of the same name, but like most of his films, it's the casting that wins us over, and not the storytelling. Yuma pits poor rancher Christian Bale against bad bad man Russell Crowe, who has a date with the titular train. In the beginning, the two are as distant as me from a veggieburger, but as they make the trek to train station, the two strike up an unlikely kinship. This is the film's main thrust and folly. While I can see why Crowe's character could identity with Bale's need for redemption, I juss don't buy that he'd help him out, especially when it will still end up in his own imprisonment. Not only that, but in the process Crowe has to turn against his trusted outlaw buddies who are trying to rescue him. Even though Bale and Crowe chew up the scenery, it's actually Six Feet Under's Ben Foster who makes the biggest bite. The guy totally pwns the angry man screen persona... which leads me to wonder how he could be so miscast as X-Maner Angel
Show-Times: there are plenty o 'films with a time in the title, but there's only one that stars Casey Siemaszko, Lisa Simpson and that's directed by the Rattle & Hum dude, the '87 mastercheese that be Three O'Clock High [trailer]
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Jeepers Mos Def Worth Yer Peepers
Fierce People
A Tribe Quest Called
Trailer
(which is a much watch so u can hear the faux versions of
'Under Pressure', 'The Passanger' and 'Bittersweet Symphony' )
Fierce People wants to be a lotta thangs, but one thing it probably didn't want to be was a film that's released in theaters 2 years after it first hit up the festival circuit. I can see how that's possible, cause it's a mess, but then again, it's one of the more earnest messes I've enjoyed this year (Spidey 3 was another mess we approved of, but that didn't quite understand the importance of being earnest goes to camp). What starts off as a nice lil coming of age piece (on top of the drug recovery and eccentric tycoon story threads that run along side it), eventually takes an unexpected dark turn, which for some viewers, may quickly erase any positive feelings you may have had leading up to it. Director Griffin Dunne (Johnny Dangerously's lil brother Tommy) and writer Dirk Wittenborn certainly have something on their hands here, but I actually think the crazy world that they created would be better suited for an HBO/Showtime type series. There's too many interesting characters inhabiting that world, and frankly, we don't get to spend enough time with any of them. But why not spend some of your time with them instead of none of it? I'll leave that up to you
Eat At Perkins: I for one am very glad that Elizabeth Perkins' career is turning itself around. I for one also love the fact that she showed us her perkies at least once [NSFW]
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): on the lower end, but still Jeepers Worth A Peepers
until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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