by Coeli Carr | Apr 11, 2013
The cult of celebrity provokes fans to want to eat, dress and live like their icons. Antiviral, written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, ups the ante considerably. The movie is a wickedly smart paean to the Neptune archetype whose domain is seduction, addiction and... 
by Coeli Carr | Apr 11, 2013
Just when you think the four young couples who gather for brunch in It’s a Disaster are settling in for a massive eat-and-gossip sit-down, writer-and-director Todd Berger throws an apocalyptic wrench in the proceedings. As the title portends, disaster strikes true to... 
by Coeli Carr | Apr 2, 2013
“Now, what did I do with that Goya?” That’s the life-and-death question that sends Simon (James McAvoy) running for a hypnotist in Danny Boyle’s Trance. The professional whom Simon consults is gorgeous Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) who quickly figures out that her... 
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... 