He’s an Inner Beauty Mark. He’s the…
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Week of May 15, 2015
Those with inner beauty should’ve been born
inside out. First up…
Mortdecai
The upside to white-collar crime is the
offenders smell way better than normal criminals.
However, the art aficionado in this comedy
is working on the right side of the law.
An indebted art dealer, Mortdecai (Johnny
Depp), accepts an offer from Inspector Martland (Ewan McGregor) to help recover
a stolen painting in exchange for 10% of its sale price.
Aided by his wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) and
manservant (Paul Bettany), Mortdecai uses his connections in the art world to
uncover a plot by Russian gangsters to use a hidden code on the artwork to
locate Nazis treasure.
The only problem is the painting is still
in the hands of the real culprits.
With flat jokes focused solely on the
character’s foolish facial hair and embarrassing performances all-round,
Mortdecai’s cheeky and quirky nature is misguided and irritating.
Besides, if you want to steal art just pry
it off the motel room wall. Red Light
Still Alice
The hardest part of losing your memory is
trying to remember the hardest part of losing your memory.
That is why the sufferer in this drama
records her thoughts for posterity.
Alice (Julianne Moore) is a middle-aged
linguistics professor who suddenly starts experiencing lapses in her thought
process.
She later learns that she has a rare form
of Alzheimer's, and that one of her three grown children: Lydia (Kristen
Stewart), Anna (Kate Bosworth) and Tom (Hunter Parrish) is likely to have
inherited it from her.
As Alice’s health deteriorates, her husband
(Alec Baldwin) fades into the background as Lydia steps into a more motherly
role.
Powerful and poignant, this well-acted adaptation
of the best-seller perfectly captures the deliberate decline in mental and
cognitive skills associated with the disease, as well as the toll Alzheimer's
takes on your family.
On the upside, Alzheimer’s does help you
forget you have cancer. Green Light
***Recall Waiting***
Regarding Henry
Who needs memories when we have thousands
of photographs of every event in our lives stored on our computers?
Still, the memory loss suffer in this drama
would like to regain his recall.
Forgetting his cold-heartedness after being
shot in the head during a convenient store robbery, high-powered attorney Henry
(Harrison Ford) finds himself relying on his neglected wife (Annette Bening)
and distant daughter for the first-time in his selfish life.
Initially unaware of his former foulness,
Henry forges new relationships with both women.
When his past becomes clearer, however, he
starts to see the flaws in his former existence and sets out to right them.
Handcrafted to evoke feels of
sentimentality, this J.J. Abrams scripted redemption tale relies too heavily on
feel-good father-daughter moments and Dickensian epiphanies to progress its
engaging but predictable narrative.
Incidentally, the best person to jog an
amnesiac’s memory is someone who owes them money.
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