ph: Natalie Berezina
Saturday, April 29, 2017
First Lines: Peter Fleming - News From Tartary
Most journeys begin less abruptly than they end, and to fix the true beginning of this one in either time or space is a task which I do not care to undertake.
Mirrors 2 (2010)
When a young man, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store's mirror.
More straightforward (and simpler) plot than the first installment effectively sets the supernatural in service of a crime mystery.
Mirrors (2008)
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
The movie pushes its narrative forward with urgency, but Sutherland's performance is over-the-top, and in the end it's nothing more than another plain old ghost story.
Maltin**: "Pretty lame attempt at horror bungles what could have been a decent psychological tale of a man in crisis."
Friday, April 28, 2017
Thursday, April 27, 2017
The Way of War (2009)
A target of his own country due to the volatile knowledge he now possesses, a highly trained government assassin attempts to stay out of the crosshairs long enough to expose the truth and ensure that justice is served.
The movie has some pretensions about saying something about war and does have a slow, brooding atmosphere, but the narrative is full of ellipses and quite incoherent.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
First Lines: George Frederick Ruxton - Life in the Far West
Away to the head waters of the Platte, where several small streams run into the south fork of that river, and head in the broken ridges of the "Divide" which separates the valleys of the Platte and Arkansa, were camped a band of trappers on a creek called Bijou.
