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Week of April 28, 2017
I’m a triple threat: singer, dancer and
armed. First up…
La La Land
Finally, Hollywood has made a film that
celebrates France’s stuttering sailors.
Oops, apparently the land in the title
actually references to tinsel town it self.
Mia (Emma Stone) is a budding actress whose
hapless life is constantly intersecting with an aspiring jazz musician,
Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), who would rather open his own club than play in his
jazz-fusion band (John Legend).
A relationship eventfully forms between the
entertainers and they each help the other attain their dream. However their
success comes at the expensive of their unique bond.
A keenly choreographed homage to old
Hollywood musicals set in the modern era with its contemporary inconveniences,
this song and dance routine may have a familiar narrative but its
reinterpretation is astute; albeit saccharine at times.
Career defining performers from both leads
and a decent array of melodies further enhance this charmer.
Incidentally, insurance doesn’t cover
injuries obtained dancing in the streets.
Yellow Light
Underworld: Blood Wars
The key to winning the war against vampires
is cutting off their crushed velvet supply.
Lamentably, the bloodsuckers in this action
movie also have skintight leather to wear.
Sought by her lycanthropic enemy (Tobias
Menzies) who needs her hybrid daughter so he can create vampire/werewolf
soldiers from her blood, Death Dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) seeks asylum
with an upstart coven where she trains others like her.
Selene’s stay is short-lived due to her
host’s (Lara Pulver) desire to drink her blood, so she and her student (Theo
James) strike out to find her offspring before anyone else does.
The fifth installment in this less than
memorable monster franchise, Blood Wars attempts to reinvigorate the struggling
series with millennial material and mindless gunfights. Both of which do
nothing to distract from the muddled script and ho-hum SPFX.
Lastly, werewolves leave more than
explosive landmines on the battlefield.
Red Light
***Lip-Syncing in the Rain***
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Busking is almost like living in a musical
except teenagers steal your change-filled hat.
Fortunately, the vocalists in this musical
have real jobs to do while they sing.
Umbrella saleswoman Geneviève (Catherine
Deneuve) is smitten with mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). But when he’s
conscripted into the Algerian war, she is left alone and pregnant in their
French village.
Encourage by her mother (Anne Vernon) to
marry the local jeweler (Marc Michel), Guy returns from war to discover
Geneviève has left Cherbourg with the daughter that he never knew he had.
Years later, a chance encounter finds the
former lovers face to face for the first time in forever.
Considered an unorthodox musical on account
that all of the dialogue is sung similar to an opera, this brightly hued tale
is also unique in its true-to-life take on love and its unpredictability.
Interestingly enough, karaoke in Cherbourg
is actually talking off-key.
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