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Stone – Movie Trailer
Oct 27th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
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
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“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.”
The Town – Movie Trailer
Oct 1st
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
Boston bank robber Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) falls for a woman his gang had previously taken hostage after feigning a chance meeting with her to ensure that she can’t identify them in Affleck’s adaptation of author Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves. The son of a tough Charlestown, MA thief, Doug passed on his chance to walk the straight and narrow in favor of becoming a career bank robber. Not only is Doug’s crew one of the most ruthless in Boston, but they’re also one of the best; they never leave a trace of evidence, and always make a clean break. Over the years, Doug’s fearless partners in crime have become something of a surrogate family to him; Jem (Jeremy Renner), the most dangerous of the bunch, is the closest thing Doug has ever had to a brother. But a divide begins to open between the two career criminals when Jem takes bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) hostage during a particularly tense heist, and the group subsequently discovers that she hails from their own tight-knit suburb. When Jem proposes that the gang make an effort to find out just how much Claire recalls about the crime, Doug fears that his volatile partner may do more harm than good and volunteers himself for the job. Later, Doug turns on the charm while pretending to bump into Claire by chance, and becomes convinced that she doesn’t suspect him of being the same man who just robbed her bank. As the feds turn up the heat on the gang, Doug finds himself falling for Claire, and searching desperately for a means of cutting his ties to his criminal past. But with each passing day, Jem grows increasingly suspicious of Doug’s true motivations. Now caught between two worlds with no chance of turning back, Doug realizes that his only hope for finding a happy future is to betray the only family he’s ever known.