by Coeli Carr | Jul 25, 2013
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine is the assured work of an older artist unafraid to make the point that people typically go to their graves clutching the archetypes they’ve been projecting and embracing for decades, no matter how self-destructive. Blue Jasmine, the... 
by Coeli Carr | Jul 24, 2013
Does being an artist – free to boundlessly create in unbridled Neptunian fashion – mean having to forsake all else with Saturnine stringency, discipline and ambition? This age-old question is explored in director and co-writer Nenad Cicin-Sain’s The Time Being, in... 
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 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 | Jun 19, 2013
When you’re CEO, you’re unquestionably in Plutonian control of the entirety of the enterprise. In A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm’s psychological and weapon-wielding thriller, procedural certainty disintegrates instantly when Danish shipping company chief executive Peter... 