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Richard Kelly's (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) newest apocalyptic meditation The Box, is once again met with general confusion and indifference. Based on Twilight Zone scribe Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button," the plot stems from the dilmma caused by a button that, when pushed, gives the pusher a million dollars, while simultaneously taking the life of an unknown third party. Manohla Dargis of the Times says The Box is "sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious, a serious work that insists on its own seriousness even when it edges toward the preposterous.
"Mr. Kelly doesn’t seem too concerned about the moral angle, either, which he takes his time getting to, creating a needless complication in a movie overstuffed with complications, including severed toes, watery portals to another dimension, the Mars Viking mission, murdered wives, tall ships and even, alas, the twin towers. But Mr. Kelly is so busy sampling genres and confusing the issue that he rarely gives you time or space to enjoy them. In the end, he often seems as lost as his characters, trapped in a Pandora’s box of his own making."
Click on the film stills for more details and reviews for this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Precious, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Fourth Kind, A Christmas Carol, The Box, Collapse, Turning Green, That Evening Sun, And Now For Something Completely Different, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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omg, what a terrible choice of movies. ugh. time to catch up on my dvr.
I'm currently at the Savannah film festival, they had a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats earlier in the week. It was an interesting movie, funny and quirky. It is one of those movies that shows George Clooney can act as opposed to his other new movie Up in the Air where he plays a common elite business man.
Precious is the big closer of the festival this weekend. I cannot wait to see it. When I was in high school the book became very popular amongst teenage girls and I'm surprised it is now part of the curriculum. Coming from a card table where all the "ghetto" novels lay, this book has come a long way and Sapphire deserves all the success she has encountered.
"Common elite" is an oxymoron.
Is that mooseknuckle girl?