Movies
These are video movie reviews, movie trailers, and websites of the latest movies. The C1N Movie section includes Dan Culberson’s Hotshots Movie Reviews with a new review every week. We also show our C1N trailer pick of the week by Aaron Smith which is about 40 years younger than Dans taste. Show times and ticket avails are up. Look for film festivals, movie news, events, and news about the pictures here too.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Movie Trailer
Nov 4th
Author Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy” winds to a close with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, director Daniel Alfredson’s adaptation of the best-selling novel following punky protagonist Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) as she fights to prove that she’s innocent of committing multiple murders. As Lisbeth lies in intensive care, the corrupt officials in high office attempt to take advantage of her incapacitated state by accusing her of murder. But fiercely independent Lisbeth isn’t about to play the scapegoat, and the more her accusers work to ruin her life, the harder she and her loyal friend Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) must push back to prove them wrong.
Stone – Movie Trailer
Oct 27th
A convicted arsonist schemes to get out of prison by convincing his debauched wife to seduce his retirement-ready parole officer in director John J. Curran’s adaptation of a play by Angus MacLachlan (who also authored the screenplay). His career as a parole officer winding down after years of service, Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) reluctantly accepts an assignment to reassess inmate Gerald “Stone” Creeson’s (Edward Norton) case for an upcoming parole hearing. Convicted of setting a fire to make the murder of his grandparents look like an accidental death, Stone will do anything to get out from behind bars, and his wife, Lucetta (Milla Jovovich), is willing to do whatever it takes to help secure her husband’s freedom — including seducing Jack. Meanwhile, Jack’s devoted wife, Madylyn (Frances Conroy), has suffered with the emotional weight of her husband’s demanding job for far too long.
“Stone” But None of Them Satisfying
Oct 27th
“But None of Them Satisfying”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
STONE is the latest movie starring Robert De Niro and Edward Norton, and then when you add Milla Jovovich to that couple of actor’s actors, then you have got yourself a movie, right?
Well,not so fast.
Next you need a believable story, a good script, and a satisfying ending, and this one fails on all three counts.
The movie begins with a dramatic opening scene in the past that will have repercussions many years later in the future.
Then we cut to a present-day funeral for a character named Robert Mabry, and his brother Jack says in his eulogy, “If it wasn’t for Bobby, I don’t know where I would have wound up.”
Jack is a parole officer who works in a prison, he is close to retirement, and he wants to keep his current cases to see them through to their reviews.
One of his cases is Gerald Creeson, who says that his people know him as “Stone,” and he prefers to be called “Stone.”
Stone tells Jack that he just wants to talk to him, and then maybe they can both get what they want. Stone says that he is so ready to be out of prison and what can he and Jack do to make that happen.
Stone has been married for nine years to Lucetta, he calls her a “dime,” a perfect “10,” and he says that she is an alien from another world. He asks Jack how long he has been married, and Jack tells him 43 years.
Stone was convicted of burning down his grandparents’ house, and he claims that his cousin killed his grandparents first, which Stone didn’t even know until after his cousin came outside and told him.
As you can tell, Stone talks a good story.
Then Lucetta, who is a grade-school teacher, starts calling Jack at home, wanting to meet him so that she can plead Stone’s case, all of which is against the rules.
But not against the rules of a movie story, right?
Eventually, Jack and Lucetta do meet, at first openly and then surreptitiously.
Unfortunately, this movie is constructed so that it contains what could have been any number of different endings, and any one of them would have been just as valid.
STONE, therefore, has many endings, but none of them is satisfying.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
