Inception: a review
The new film staring Leonardo DiCaprio is a BIG idea. Too big! The acting is great, the special effects superb, and concept interesting. Yet after two and a half hours it falls short. All the elements were there, but it just like a doesn’t hit the spot. The dreams within dreams action is plenty, but beyond the coolness of the concept the film misses the opportunity to explore the subconcious baggage that we all carry and yet are so unaware of; settling instead for raw action for actions sake. All in all, those […]
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Breakfast on Pluto is based on the McCabe novel The Butcher Boy. It’s the story of Patrick Brady; a young man who is astutely aware at an early age that he is different. Yet he never seems to carry that as a burden. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown, he is left on the steps of a priests’ living quarters and then placed into a foster home. From an early age he fancies wearing dresses and make up as casually as if he were putting on socks. This […]
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Can a road trip movie with a transgender character rise above expectations? Transamerica is the story of a post-operative transsexual named Sabrina (Bree) Claire Osborne, who two weeks before her scheduled male to female sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) discovers she has a son. Toby, a seventeen-year-old street hustler that is currently in jail, phones Bree looking for Stanley — the father he has never met, the man Bree once was. Bree hangs up and continues making her telemarketing calls. She mentions the call to her therapist, but then quickly dismisses […]
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