Safety Not Guaranteed dares to keep your attention at every turn and really succeeds. The script is brilliant and deserves the praise it has already gotten. From diving deeper into Kenneth's world to seeing the different motivations that come to light, for both our time travelers and our magazine team tailing him, more and more layers of interest keep coming into play. All the while, you feel the countdown and are driven to wonder if Kenneth and his time machine are the real deal when the time comes to leave. This pace makes the movie breeze by and, unlike some other edgy indie movies that sell you with teases, the payoff is really rich and deserved.
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East of Eden is required viewing for cinephiles and completely fits the phrase "they don't make them like this anymore."
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For now, here are the best movies and performances of 2012 (so far). Since we are only halfway, the typical "10 Best" lists are reduced to just five and, in keeping with my website's theme, they are accompanied by their best life lesson.
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Brave is a fantastically empowering movie for mothers and daughters. Many daughters, young and old, can relate to this kind of story about the plans and expectations that their mothers have for them that differ from their own interests. The story is a bold one and devoid of cheese and syrup that can sometimes come with Disney's movies.
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Alright, here's my list of the ten best movies based of folklore and, of course, I sneak a few ties in to add more. Enjoy!
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Just to add to the discussion, I wanted to lay out some movie recommendations for those seeking stories of folklore brought to the big screen. With so many possibilities, the lines became blurred again. In order to give a more broad view to movies basked on folklore, I ended up making regional and legend groupings.
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Dark City is an immensely challenging film to watch and "read," so to speak. Its ideas, implications, and revelations dealing with mortality, the human soul, reality, memories, and the parallels to Christ within a science fiction setting are so big that they are daunting to buy into (and a slow start with a lot of unanswered questions doesn't help).
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In honor of Disney/Pixar's Brave coming out this weekend, highlighting a blazing redhead heroine, I felt obliged to make a list of the top movie redheads. As a "ginger" myself, the subject is close to my heart.
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Cop Land completely has a western's tone and style coupled with modern grit of crooked cops and hard-asses pouring snake oil and slithering through clouds of cigarette smoke. The ending shootout simulating Freddy's deafness is one of the smoothest action sequences ever done.
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Prometheus is absolutely the necessary cleansing we needed for this franchise and who better to accomplish that than the man who started it. We can't quite call this a reboot or a prequel for sure just yet, but let's just say the right seeds have been planted for a bold, new direction.
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Set in Los Angeles in the year 2019 and loosely based on the thematic elements of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, director Ridley Scott molded Blade Runner into essentially a noir gumshoe flick that just happens to take place in a dystopian sci-fi future.
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In a summer blockbuster, entertainment value is commonly given more emphasis than cohesive story flow and Men in Black 3 lives up to that formula.
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