Thursday, February 16, 2012

Talking Pictures: 'This Means War' | 'In Darkness' | 'Rampart' | 'Secret World of Arrietty' | 'Declaration of War'

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'This Means War': Witherspoon in the middle of spy vs. spy vs. sense ✭
'This Means War' ✭
Witherspoon in the middle of spy vs. spy vs. sense

The CIA operatives played by Chris Pine and Tom Hardy fall for the same woman, a consumer products tester played by Reese Witherspoon. At first the boys agree to let the best agent win, seduction-wise, while Witherspoon's Lauren puzzles through her feelings regarding her suitors, whom she believes to be a cruise ship captain and a travel agent, respectively.

From sewers of Poland, 'In Darkness' sheds light on history of Holocaust ✭✭✭✭ 'In Darkness' ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Light shed on Holocaust

Based on a true story, this is a pitiless glimpse into the inferno, into hell not only on earth but below it.
Police story charts a slide downhill for a rogue cop in 'Rampart' ✭✭✭ 1/2 'Rampart' ✭ ✭ ✭ 1/2
A downhill police slide

This jarringly intimate study of a dirty Los Angeles cop sliding, crazily, down the drain has a distinctive new-cliche smell, pungent and alive.
'Secret World of Arrietty': An animation style worth borrowing ✭✭✭ 1/2 'Secret World of Arrietty' ✭ ✭ ✭ 1/2
Animation worth borrowing

Arrietty lives under a house with her equally miniature father and mother, "borrowing" what they need to survive from their human hosts.
A 'Declaration of War' to save a child, based on a true story ✭✭✭ 1/2 'Declaration of War' ✭ ✭ ✭ 1/2
Battle to save a child

A vibrant and heartfelt French film captures the mood and memories of young parents in the trenches fighting for the life of their child.
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