by Coeli Carr | Jul 14, 2013
Guns, violence, sex and anger are the domain of Mars and Aries, whose energies dominate Fruitvale Station, the Sundance award-winning film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. The movie’s Martial beginning is also its end point. In the very early hours of New Year’s... 
by Coeli Carr | Jul 12, 2013
Out of the mouths of babes takes on a whole new meaning in the Danish movie, The Hunt, in which a young girl falsely accuses a close family friend of sexually inappropriate behavior and sets off a punishing Saturnine reaction within a close-knit community. The Hunt,... 
by Coeli Carr | Jul 12, 2013
Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is as Mercurial a movie as they come. Abounding in and playing on dualities, the movie twinningly becomes a poster child for all things Gemini. The back story involves world destruction through the Kaiju, enormous and organically... 
by Coeli Carr | Jul 6, 2013
In Josh Boone’s Stuck in Love, award-winning novelist Bill Borgens (Greg Kinnear) still has profound feelings for Erica (Jennifer Connelly), his ex-wife, even setting a place for her, in absence, at the dinner table. Clearly Bill is living in the past. But as the... 
by Coeli Carr | Jul 3, 2013
In coming-of-age movies, there’s always a challenging ritual that propels a young person away from circumstances over which he has no control, to a life that he can better manage and even enjoy. In The Way Way Back, that symbolic moment which leads to a new order of... 