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Week of September 19, 2014
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Godzilla
The upside to a giant lizard is that one day its fossilized
bones will generate massive amounts of crude oil.
Unfortunately, the rampaging reptile in this sci-fi movie is
far from petrifaction.
Fifteen years after his mother (Juliette Binoche) was killed
in a nuclear power plant accident, Lt. Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) returns to
the contaminated site to help his father (Bryan Cranston) expose a military
cover-up involving Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms.
Their suspicious are later confirmed when a winged MUTO
hatches from its cocoon and attacks Hawaii.
Now humanities only hope lies in a cold-blooded MUTO the US
army has been secretly bombing for 60 years.
With a faithful Godzilla design and monster battles galore,
this modernization of the Japanese fire-breather pummels previous American
efforts with ease.
However, that doesn’t prevent this update from being tedious
and disjointed at times.
Incidentally, in Japan anyone over 6-feet tall is called
Godzilla. Yellow Light
The Fault in Our Stars
One of the pros to dying young is that you don’t have to
worry about getting Alzheimer’s.
But as this drama points out, there are more cons to early
expiration.
Urged to attend a cancer support group at the behest of her
mother (Laura Dern) and father (Sam Trammell), terminal teenager Hazel
(Shailene Woodley) finds the meetings more bearable thanks to fellow sufferer
Augustus (Ansel Elgort).
Agreeing to read each other’s favourite book, Hazel shares
one about cancer with Augustus - who is reluctantly won over by the prose.
Wanting to meet the author before her demise, Hazel’s wish
is granted. But her and Augustus’ encounter with him (Willem Dafoe) is
disparaging at best.
Based on the Teen Lit sensation, this adaptation does an
adequate job of adhering to its inspiration, specifically characterization,
plotting, and the sorrowful ending.
What's more, when you die young your Obit photo will be
hot. Green Light
Think Like A Man Too
If thinking like men gets women to stop acting like men than
that’s a plus.
Thankfully, there are no flatulent females in this comedy.
Attending their friends wedding in Vegas, Cedric (Kevin
Hart) and his boys (Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Gary Owen, Romany Malco) split
from their significant others (Meagan Good, Taraji P. Henson, Wendi
McLendon-Covey, Gabrielle Union) to have the bachelor party.
But even though both parties are apart from each other
they’re still haunted by their relationship woes, i.e. intimacy, infidelity and
career.
Meanwhile Cedric’s extravagant boys’ night out lands him in
debt, which he hopes to nullify through gambling.
The slapdash sequel to the mildly amusing original, Think
Too doesn’t develop the returning characters beyond their previous appearance,
save for Hart who has become a caricature.
It also doesn’t offer up any relevant relationship advice.
Besides, 1 in 5 Las Vegas marriages ends in personal
bankruptcy. Red Light
***Dying Young Love***
Now Is Good
The good thing about dying young is that you die with all of
your hair.
However, that won’t be the case with the ailing adolescent
in this drama.
When her cancer returns, Tessa (Dakota Fanning) formulates a
bucket list comprised of high-risk activities.
Despite her death sentence, her parents (Paddy Considine,
Olivia Williams) still cannot condom her hazardous behaviour, urging her to
mind her health.
It’s not until she encounters her kindhearted neighbour
(Jeremy Irvine) that Tessa begins to feel her first glint of love.
Adapted from the Teen Lit book Before I Die, this British
based love story is an emotional and frank exposition on the final days of a
debilitating disease, and the people and moments that make them
memorable.
Heart wrenching performances throughout, Now is Good is not
only believable but also beneficial.
Incidentally, the one unchecked item on all sick kids’
bucket lists is: cure cancer.
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