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“Eat Pray Love” Indulge
Aug 18th
Posted by Dan Culberson in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“Indulge”
EAT PRAY LOVE is based on the successful memoir of the same name published in 2006 by Elizabeth Gilbert, except that the commas have been taken out of the book’s title.
Julia Roberts plays Liz in the story that describes her year off to travel the world after a messy divorce, and the title gives away what her activities are in the three places she visits: Italy, India, and Indonesia, specifically the island of Bali.
Liz is a successful travel writer, and she had been to Bali before while writing an article, which we see at the beginning of the movie, along with her encounter with Ketut, a ninth-generation medicine man who tells Liz’s fortune by reading her palm.
Ketut tells her, “You will lose all your money.”
Then Liz is back home in New York City, and we see her unhappy marriage to Stephen, who has recently changed jobs and is now thinking about going back to school.
In a scene in which she prays to God, Liz says, “I’m in serious trouble. I don’t know what to do. Please tell me what to do.”
One could argue then that the rest of the movie is one long piece of advice about what to do and what not to do.
Liz becomes involved with a young actor named David, played by James Franco, whom she describes as a yogi from Yonkers and who looks a lot like Stephen.
Liz makes a break for it, and she is off to Italy, where she indulges in food and learns the Italian sweetness of doing nothing. Naturally, there are many closeups of food and of eating food.
After four months, Liz goes to India, where she joins an ashram and meets Richard from Texas, played by Richard Jenkins and whose every speech is nothing but advice, except for one long speech of maudlin overacting.
Then it is on to Bali, where Liz reconnects with Ketut the medicine man, and, sure enough, Liz meets a Brazilian played by Javier Bardem. To her credit, Liz tries to resist his advances, but if you know the story of the real Liz Gilbert, you already know the ending.
EAT PRAY LOVE can be boiled down to just a one-word title: INDULGE, but at least for many, two words should be added: IGNORE and FORGET.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Dinner for Schmucks – Movie Trailer
Jul 30th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
An ambitious executive accepts an invitation from his boss to attend a dinner party where high-powered professionals make fun of unsuspecting dimwits in this remake of Francis Veber’s 1998 comedy The Dinner Game. Upwardly mobile executive Tim (Paul Rudd) has just landed his company an extremely wealthy Swiss client when his boss, Lance (Bruce Greenwood), invites him to an exclusive, yet unusually mean-spirited dinner party where each of the high-powered executives brings a guest to make fun of. Recognizing that his long-awaited promotion is finally within reach, Tim begins to have second thoughts about participating in the elaborate charade when his longtime girlfriend, Julie (Stephanie Szostak), the successful curator at a local art gallery, voices intense disdain for the idea. The following day, Tim is looking for a way out of the dinner when fate throws the perfect guest right in front of his luxury car. Barry (Steve Carell) is a sweet but dim-witted IRS agent with an unusual hobby: he creates elaborate dioramas featuring stuffed mice. His latest project is “The Last Supper,” and he’s just put the finishing touches on a tiny mouse Jesus to set at the center of the table. Tim knows that Barry is his ticket to a big corner office on the seventh floor, but the closer the party looms, the more he realizes that his bumbling new acquaintance isn’t just an idiot, but also is a magnet for chaos.
Chloe – Movie Trailer
Mar 31st
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
An untrusting wife attempts to prove that her husband is cheating by hiring an escort to seduce him, inadvertently endangering her entire family in the process. Catherine (Julianne Moore) is a respected doctor, and her husband, David (Liam Neeson), is a dedicated music professor. They’ve been married for years and have a teenage son together, but lately the passion has faded from their romance. The morning after David misses his flight home — and the elaborate surprise birthday party Catherine had planned to celebrate his return — Catherine finds a text message on his phone that leads her to believe her husband is sleeping with a female student. Her suspicions grow over the following weeks, and when Catherine has a run-in with an escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), she hires the ravishing blonde to test her husband’s fidelity. After each encounter with David, Chloe reports back to Catherine with all the sordid details. But the further the experiment goes, the less clear Chloe’s motivations for taking part in it become, and the more the untrusting wife begins to fear that the situation has spiraled out of control. Directed by Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat), this erotic thriller is a remake of Anne Fontaine’s French film Nathalie…, and was adapted by Erin Cressida Wilson.