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Week of September 27, 2013
Stop! Or I’ll Clutter. First
up…
Iron Man 3
The benefit of a wealthy
superhero is they can afford restitution for the public property they destroy.
However, the hero’s home in
this action movie is what’s being obliterated.
Suffering PTSD from the
Avengers Initiative, Iron Man inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) brazenly
invites an attack from The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) that leaves his estate, and
armour, in the ocean.
Believed to have perished,
Tony resurfaces in Tennessee - alive but armourless.
With help from a kid (Ty
Simpkins), Tony’s forced to use his mettle - not his metal - to save his
friends (Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow) and stop a virus created by Mandarin’s
weapons supplier, Advanced Idea Mechanics (Guy Pearce).
The third, and arguably best, Iron Man, director/co-write
Shane Black recaptures Tony’s charm and humour amid amazing aerial battles
against an unconventional villain.
However, with that airtight
armour, Iron Man missed his true calling as a beekeeper. 0
The Kings of Summer
As the monarchs of summer, we
demand something be done about all the goddamn wasps.
Oops, apparently the royals
in this coming-of-age tale are metaphoric in nature.
Fed-up with his single-father’s
(Nick Offerman) rules, rebellious teen Joe (Nick Robinson) flees to the forest
with his best-friend Patrick (Gabriel Basso) - who hopes to escape his
overprotective parents (Megan Mullally, Marc Evan Jackson) - and Biaggio
(Moisés Arias), an eccentric hanger-on.
Assembling odds and ends, the
boys build themselves a home of their own, where they drink beer and
roughhouse.
However, Joe’s inclusion of
his crush (Erin Moriarty) into the fold ultimately leads to his distraught and
his home’s destruction.
While its Internet-style
humour and screwball characters can get outlandish, overall, The Kings of
Summer is one of the funniest, most heartfelt movies of the season.
Incidentally, as a king
living in the wild, the best queen is a distracted jogger. 0
Room 237
Every ghost in a haunted
hotel room can likely be traced back to one of the stains on the bed-sheet.
Fortunately, the mountain
resort discussed in this documentary is unoccupied, save for a family of three.
Through interviews with
experts (Buffy Visick, Jay Weidner, Bill Blakemore, Juli Kearns, Geoffrey Cocks,
John Fell Ryan) on the subliminal contents of Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of
Stephen King’s The Shining, Room 237 explores their unverified hypothesizes.
Using footage from other Kubrick classics, the super-fans’
suppositions on how the subversive director slipped visual references to the
Holocaust, the eradication of the American Indian, his participation in the moon
landing, incest and repressed homosexuality are explored.
Despite its crazy theories,
and erroneous editing, Room 237 does offer an intriguing exposition on Kubrik’s
genius.
Furthermore, when staying in
a haunt hotel, the spirit of the dead chambermaid under the bed can also make
it in the morning. 0
***Checking Out***
The Shining
The best thing about an empty
resort is you can combine the tiny shampoo into one normal sized bottle.
However, personal hygiene
isn’t on the mind of the crazed writer in this psychological thriller.
Hired to maintain the
Overlook Hotel during the winter, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) moves his wife
Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and his mentally gifted son Danny (Danny Lloyd) into the
servants’ quarters.
While he tries to write,
Wendy runs maintenance checks, and Danny rides his big wheel past ghostly twin
sisters, a hemorrhaging elevator, and the forbidding room 237.
Downstairs, Danny’s dad -
spurned on by an evil bartender - decides to murder his family with an axe.
Based on Stephen King’s book,
director Stanley Kubrik transforms the novel’s intuitive narrative into a
subversive and superbly shot shocker.
Malicious ghosts aside, what
would drive most people crazy, would be abstaining from the mini bar for 5
months.
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