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If incestuous rape, existential button-pushing questions, or alien abduction movies aren't your cup of tea, then maybe consider seeing That Evening Sun instead. Hal Halbrook, continuing his late career renaissance, plays Abner Meecham, an old crank who escapes his nursing facility for his old Tennessee ranch, only to find that his son had signed it over to his old arch nemesis.
Reviews have been lukewarm to positive, with Halbrook's performance as the only positive staple with the critics. Chuck Wilson of the Village Voice says, "As an actor, Holbrook is as unsentimental as Abner himself, and the beauty of his work here lies in his refusal to soften the character's hard edges. Regrettably, [Writer/Director] Teems's editorial choices in the film's homestretch waste that discipline: More than once, the director inserts a gooey flashback to a tender moment between the farmer and his late wife (Dixie Carter) that not only extends an already overlong movie, but also fatally undercuts the artful rigor of its leading man."
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?