I Got Incepted!
That freaky deaky DiCaprio thrillfest done blew my flippin’ mind
(July 22, 2010) Previews
“Who is Salt?” The question is the tagline for Salt, an action thriller from Aussie director Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Catch a Fire) with Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent accused of being a KGB sleeper sent to assassinate the President. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action. Opening Friday at the Fortuna, the Minor, Mill Creek and the Broadway
For the teen and pre-teen girls, there’s Ramona and Beezus, loosely based on Beezus and Ramona, the beloved book by Beverly Cleary. Ramona Quimby (Joey King) is a cute, energetic, accident-prone third-grader with a big imagination. Beatrice, aka Beezus (teen singer/TV star Selena Gomez), is her long-suffering big sister. Rated G. Opening Friday at the Fortuna, Mill Creek and the Broadway.
Friday the Arcata Theatre Lounge has The Thing, a sci-fi horror film directed by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell battling a shape-shifting monster in the Arctic. Sunday it’s part three in the Boy Wizard series: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Next Wednesday’s Sci-Fi Pint Night focuses on prehistoric chicks dressed in skins: Prehistoric Women from 1950 and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women from 1968, directed by none other than Peter Bogdanovich.
Humboldt County Library’s July “Based On The Book” series ends next Tuesday with the seminal caper flick The Asphalt Jungle, directed by John Huston based on a novel by W.R. Burnett. Sterling Hayden stars as the mastermind of a complicated jewel heist. Yours truly serves as host.
— Bob Doran
Reviews
INCEPTION. Marion Cotillard’s face is a fleeting, recurring image in Inception, but it’s the image that informs and unifies the complicated narrative. Similarly, recurring snatches of Edith Piaf’s song “Non, je ne regrette rien” simultaneously remind fans of the role in La Vie en Rose that made Cotillard a star in this country and underscore a philosophy that her character’s husband, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), may need to embrace in order to survive.
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