MEEK AT THE MOVIES : All is Lost ( 3 STARS )
^ nameless upon the sea shall he chance : Robert Redford as “Our Man” in J. C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost” —- —- —- Open vastness can be an aesthetic wonderment, breathtaking to behold, like the dark cold...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : THE COUNSELLOR ( 2.5 stars )
^ mixed up shook up bad gals and bad guys : including Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz in Ridley Scott’s “The Counsellor” —- —- —- Not so long ago the Coen Brothers deviated from their usually quirky...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : FREE BIRDS ( 2 stars )
^ animated turkey : jimmy Haywood’s “Free Birds” —- —- —- Poultry and tradition, that’s what’s on the menu in this animated butterball about America’s family holiday and the secret lives of turkeys....
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : Blue is the Warmest Color ( 3.5 STARS )
^ passion in a girls’ house : Abdellatif Kechiche and his two blues, Adele and Lea —- —- —- Abdellatif Kechiche’s beguiling portrait of passion and betrayal received much ado at Cannes where...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : THE BOOK THIEF ( 2 stars )
^ Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nelisse in Brian Percival’s World war Ii pot-boiler “The Book Thief” —- —- — Call me a curmudgeon, but it seems today that all the haute, wild-fire books that are flimsy...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : HUNGER GAMES — CATCHING FIRE ( 3 stars )
^ Jennifer Lawrence and josh Hutcherson as Katniss and Peeta in “Catching Fire” as sequel to “Hunger Games” —- —- —- The second time may be a charm, but hey, it’s all relative, as the first “Hunger...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : NEBRASKA ( 3 stars )
^ losing it or winning it — or both ? Bruce Dern and Will Forte in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska” —- —- —- In his films, Alexander Payne has shown strong predilection for men somewhere north of their...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES — THE WOLF OF WALL STREET ( 4 stars )
^ Leonard DiCaprio as penny stock pusher in Martin Scorcese’s “Wolf of wall Street” — —- —- “The Wolf of Wall Street” is everything “American Hustle” wanted to be and more. It’s smart, mean and makes...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : AUGUST : OSAGE COUNTRY ( 2.5 stars )
^ a deep dark closet of skeletons at the Weston family table in “August : Osage Country” —- —- — There’s plenty of thespian timber and uncorked rage in this austere melodrama about familial...
View ArticleMEEK AT THE MOVIES : Draft Day —- 2 STARS
^ not much of a draft picker : Kevin Costner as NFL GM Sonny weaver, Jr (with Jennifer Garner) in Ivan Reitman’s “Draft day” —- —- —- Here’s something new : Kevin Costner back in a sports movie. Ok,...
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