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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘Lucy’ (2014)
Universal Pictures Luc Besson’s new sci-fi thriller Lucy could easily have been titled Mercury in Hyperdrive, a breathless tale about the archetype that rules thought and communication gone...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘Calvary’ (2014)
Fox Searchlight Everyone has a cross to bear. But a parish priest tending his flock in Ireland’s County Sligo has really gotten more than his share in Calvary, a movie that addresses archetypal Pluto...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘The Congress’ (2014)
Drafthouse Films Can the veil that separates Saturnine corporeal reality from the transcendent Neptunian realm actually be a cruel trick devised by Hollywood moguls? Yes, indeed, and it’s the premise...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘Get On Up’ (2014)
Universal Pictures It’s all there. The riffs, the shoes that swivel maniacally as though greased, the slurrified words, the clipped throaty growls. But Tate Taylor’s Get On Up, the biopic of soul-funk...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘The Giver’ (2014)
The Weinstein Company Many people refer to their homeland as the mother country. Those people didn’t know The Chief Elder, a matriarch as stern as they come who’s running the show in the country...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘Gone Girl’ (2014)
20th Century Fox Containers abound in Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher and based on the popular novel by Gillian Flynn, who wrote the screenplay. There are envelopes, which hold the clues for the...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘The Good Lie’ (2014)
Warner Bros. Whether it’s called the Motherland or Fatherland, one’s native country is an extension of family, especially in the face of tragic uprooting. The Good Lie, written and directed by Philippe...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘St. Vincent’ (2014)
The Weinstein Company Sainthood is aspirational at best and yet, as depicted in St. Vincent, it’s a possibility within reach in the real world. Written and directed by Theodore Melfi, the movie makes...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘Force Majeure’ (2014)
Magnolia Pictures Blindingly white and light-reflective, snow shows a surprisingly dark side in Force Majeure, which abruptly detours from its seeming family-vacation premise to one family member’s...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘Citizenfour’ (2014)
Radius-TWC The most vibrant movie characters, fictional or biographical, tend to carry the most riveting archetypes. Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’ documentary about Edward J. Snowden, falls – rather,...
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Astrology: Film: Review: ‘Mr. Turner’ (2014)
Sony Pictures Classics Genius often erupts in strange packages, a notion personified in Mr. Turner, the biopic of iconic 19th century English painter J.M.W. Turner. Written and directed by Mike Leigh,...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Big Eyes’ (2014)
The Weinstein Company If eyes are the windows to the soul, you can’t get a better view of the psyche than by peering through the gigantic orbs painted on despondent-looking waifs’ faces by Margaret...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Two Days, One Night’ (2014)
IFC Films The work world is notoriously time-obsessed. One toils a certain number of days and hours, gets a certain amount of time as vacation and, depending on the employer, may be required to punch a...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Leviathan’ (2014)
Sony Pictures Classics A Russian modern-day epic, Leviathan begins and ends with an images of nature at its most pristine. Gradually the geography becomes more contaminated until we rest on a wreck of...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Into the Woods’ (2014)
Walt Disney Pictures When beset by trauma, disappointment and hurt, people often find their way to a dark place to sort things out. The Underworld of the psyche is where knowledge can be accessed with...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Selma’ (2014)
Paramount Pictures Saturnine self-mastery is never easy. The challenge becomes even more formidable when one’s values and integrity are tied up with the political well being of a people. In Selma,...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Wild Tales’ (2014)
Sony Pictures Classics Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes), from Argentine director Damian Szifron, is a film of six stories, each one a tale about people getting even. Vengefulness and retaliatory measures,...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Still Alice’ (2014)
Sony Pictures Classics Physical aging is often a blatant visual affront, but the brain’s wearing way can be much more subtle. In Still Alice, co-written and co-directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘A Most Violent Year’ (2014)
A24 The killing and savagery rampant in the world are mirrored in the hearts of people who inhabit it. In A Most Violent Year, written and directed by J. D. Chandor, the ethics and values of Abel...
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Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Paddington’ (2015)
The Weinstein Company Broadening one’s outlook often occurs through travel and education. Both these archetypes of expansion are the heart of Paddington, which delights in sharing the arrival, in...
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