by Coeli Carr | Apr 2, 2013
At some point, people’s pasts catch up with them, or they catch up with their pasts. In The Company You Keep, Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), who in the late 1960s was a member of the Weather Underground, participated in a robbery that resulted in a guard’s getting... 
by Coeli Carr | Mar 29, 2013
The core of The Place Beyond the Pines, directed by Derek Cianfrance, is Neptunian deceit and Saturnine responsibility. The question the movie asks is how far can the movie’s two male protagonists push or disregard those energies and get away with it. Structured in... 
by Coeli Carr | Mar 28, 2013
You’d hardly call Melanie Stryder the hostess with the mostest. That’s because, in The Host, based on Twilight series’ author Stephenie Meyer’s novel, an alien race called the Souls has “colonized” earthlings into submissives by implanting into their bodies an alien... 
by Coeli Carr | Mar 28, 2013
In Renoir, directed by Gilles Bourdos, we see the Impressionist artist as an infirm old man in his 70s – still painting in his twilight years, but whose hands are nearly crippled and whose crumbling body is all but affixed to his wheelchair. What Pierre-August Renoir... 
by Coeli Carr | Mar 25, 2013
Blancanieves is Spanish screenwriter and director Pablo Berger’s nod to the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, “Snow White.” Berger revisions the story as a black and white silent movie with sparse use of intertitles, setting it Seville in the 1920’s and making the ceremony,... 