by
Julien Faddoul
Elysium
In the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a
man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined
Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized
worlds.
Politically facile, visually cheap, repugnantly acted and
incomprehensibly directed. The film completely lacks any sense of itself, in
both tenor and plot.
wd – Neill Blomkamp
ph – Trent Opaloch
pd – Philip Ivey
m – Ryan Amon
ed – Julian Clarke, Lee Smith
cos – April Ferry
p – Simon Kinberg
Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice
Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, William Fichtner, Brandon Auret, Josh Blacker
We’re the Millers
A pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his
plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
Uncouth and unfunny comedy devoid of wit, tone or even amusement.
d – Rawson Marshall Thurber
w – Bob Fisher, Steve Faber, Sean Anders, John
Morris
ph – Barry Peterson
pd – Clayton Hartley
m – Theodore Shapiro
ed – Michael L. Sale
cos – Shay Cunliffe
p – Chris Bender, Vincent Newman, Tucker Tooley, Happy
Walters
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Will
Poulter, Emma Roberts, Ed Helms, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn
Red 2
A retired C.I.A. agent reunites his unlikely team
of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear
device.
Malkovich is funny, the rest are cashing cheques.
d – Dean Parisot
w – Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber (Based on the Characters Created by Warren
Ellis, Cully Hamner)
ph – Enrique Chediak
pd – Jim Clay
m – Alan Silvestri
ed – Don Zimmerman
cos – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
p – Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian
Cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise
Parker, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Byung-hun Lee, Jong Kun Lee, Catherine
Zeta-Jones, Neal McDonough, David Thewlis, Garrick Hagon
Paranoia
An entry-level
employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office in
exchange for spying on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion
dollar advantage.
Hilariously incompetent thriller with Oldman and Ford chewing the
scenery nonstop while Hemsworth seemed like he required cue cards.
d – Robert Luketic
w – Jason Hall, Barry L. Levy (Based on the Novel by Joseph Finder)
ph – David Tattersall
pd – David Brisbin, Missy Stewart
m – Junkie XL
ed – Dany Cooper
cos – Luca Mosca
p – William D. Johnson, Scott Lambert, Alexandra
Milchan, Deepak Nayar
Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Amber Heard, Harrison
Ford, Lucas Till, Embeth Davidtz, Julian McMahon, Josh Holloway, Richard
Dreyfuss, Angela Sarafyan
Prince Avalanche *
In the summer of 1988, two highway road workers are
in solitude as they repaint traffic lines down the centre of a country highway
ravaged by wildfire.
A return to filmmaking form for its director, though one can’t help but
wish his characters were more of interest.
wd – David Gordon Green (Based on the Screenplay by
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson)
ph – Tim Orr
pd – Richard A. Wright
m – Explosions in the Sky, David Wingo
ed – Colin Patton
cos – Jill Newell
p – James Belfer, David Gordon Green, Lisa Muskat,
Derrick Tseng, Craig Zobel
Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce
Payne
