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Week of February 17, 2017
Constellations are really star gangs. First
up…
Arrival
Oddly enough, alien abductions decreased
around the same time human waistlines increased.
So our girth could be the reason the UFOs
in this sci-fi film decided to land instead.
When alien spacecraft strategically
position themselves around the globe, a senior military official (Forest
Whitaker) recruits a linguist professor, Louisa (Amy Adams), to commune with
the visitors.
Partnered with a theoretical physicist
(Jeremy Renner), Louisa begins to decrypt the cephalopod’s pictorial form of
communication, all the while suffering from vivid dreams of a dying daughter
she has never met.
Meanwhile, the world’s superpowers prepare
to annihilate them if their purpose is not uncovered.
With its cerebral stance on an alien
incursion, Arrival challenges the status quo sci-fi shoot’em ups. Its violence
simmers in the background, while its foreground dazzles with an astounding
time-travel tale concerning the human condition.
Incidentally, the sooner we decode their
language the sooner we’ll understand their Tweets. Green Light
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Under Trump’s administration troops can
look forward to fighting a lot closer to home.
However, the GIs in this drama are just
visiting Texas, not invading it.
Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) and the rest of
Bravo Squad will be honored during the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving halftime show for
an act of bravery that went viral.
Meanwhile, backstage, their sergeant
(Garrett Hedlund) works with a producer (Chris Tucker) to get the rescue of
officer Shroom (Vin Diesel) made, and his men paid.
When the halftime spectacle starts,
however, Billy’s PTSD flashbacks of Iraq and his sister (Kristen Stewart) cause
him to question the war.
The troops hustling for funding is the most
intriguing segment of Ang Lee’s eye-catching critique of modern hero
worshipping, while Vin Diesel’s turn as the philosophical sergeant is the most
insufferable.
Incidentally, with their stanch allegiance,
violent tendencies and love of face-paint, sports fans would make ideal
soldiers. Yellow Light
Bleed for This
Boxing isn’t that dangerous; it’s the only
sport you don’t need a jockstrap to play.
In fact, the pugilist in this sports-drama
wasn’t paralyzed anywhere near a ring.
Vinny Paz (Miles Teller) is a junior
welterweight who can’t make his division so his father (Ciarán Hinds) hires
Tyson’s old trainer Kevin Rooney (Aaron Eckhart) to assist.
While his father doesn’t approve of pushing
his son into a new weight class, Vinny’s junior middleweight world championship
changes all that.
So, too, does the car accident that leaves
him with a medical halo screwed into his skull. But even that’s isn’t enough to
keep Vinny from the ring.
The mediocre retelling of the amazing
recovery that took the boxing community by surprise in the early nineties, this
true story’s charm lies in its dedicated performances, not in its timeworn
underdog prizefighter narrative.
Anecdotally, the next weight class in
boxing after heavyweight is sumo. Yellow
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The Edge of Seventeen
You know you’re turning seventeen when your
parents get you luggage for your birthday.
However, the senior in this dramedy is apt
to get nothing from her widowed mom.
Falling out of favour with her mother (Kyra
Sedgwick) and brother (Blake Jenner) after her father died while in her
company, the only people cynical Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) has left is her best
friend (Haley Lu Richardson) and her high school teacher (Woody Harrelson).
But when her BFF hooks up with her bro, it
sends Nadine into a tailspin that causes her to stalk her crush and crush the
nerd who has feelings for her.
With all of the heartbreak, humour and
humiliation of the high school experience as well as a career defining
performance from Steinfeld and a sardonic script, this comical coming-of-age
tale encapsulates adolescents in all its awkwardness.
Unfortunately, all those people you hate in
school end up becoming your co-workers.
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***Milky-Wayfarer***
Contact
The scariest thing about meeting aliens is
that they could have bigger guns than us.
Smartly, the aliens in this sci-fi film are
transporting a single humanoid to them.
Subsidized by an enigmatic billionaire
(John Hurt) after her boss (Tom Skerritt) cuts her government funding, Dr.
Arroway (Jodie Foster) is allowed to continue her research into
extraterrestrials, which proves fruitful when a coded message arrives from
space.
Once deciphered, the data details how to
construct a device capable of transporting a passenger across the universe.
When word gets out, religious zealots successfully stop the first attempt. But
another launch with Dr. Arroway aboard is successful.
While the reveal of the aliens in this
adaptation of Carl Sagan’s novel is anticlimactic, the philosophical preamble
to the final interaction is so engrossing the unorthodox ending is forgivable,
even commendable.
Besides, real aliens would most likely be
microscopic organisms…attached to gigantic cephalopods.
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