Are you a movie buff? Or maybe you just enjoy the occasional dinner and a movie date? Either way, Patch would be thrilled to have you on board as a movie blogger! All you have to do is shoot a quick email to Ryan Martin at ryan.martin@patch.com.
Star Trek: Into Darkness??
Patch Blogger Mark Glass:?**** It?s time again to boldly go...where tons of TV and movie cameras have gone before. Space. The final frontier. For context, this is the second feature film showing the original crew of the Enterprise in the beginning of their careers, in an alternate time line, allowing both overlaps and variations from the stories and characters that started the whole? franchise. That allows Benedict Cumberbatch (best known as a contemporary Sherlock Holmes on British TV and our PBS) to play a version of Ricardo Montalban?s Khan, who was arguably the best villain that group ever faced on either scale of screens.?Full Review
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Kon-Tiki??
Patch Blogger Mark Glass:?*** I assume every school kid still learns about the daring adventure of Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, who set sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 on a raft like the pre-Inca Peruvians might have built 1500 years earlier, to prove his radical theory that those Pacific islands were settled by explorers from South America, rather than Asia. The film covers his backstory, including his bold scientific motives, and difficulties in getting the trip financed. Everyone thought they knew he was wrong, and that his 5,000 mile trip would be suicidal. He who laughs last...?Full Review
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At Any Price
Patch Blogger Mark Glass:?*? How can so many things go wrong when one starts with a solid cast, timely main premise, promising character conflicts and strong opening? After thirty minutes, or so, of?what seems to be an examination of the current plight of family farms coping with the economic threats of agribusiness, and the usually viable exploration of father-son dynamics, the script soon descends into a turgid, shallow melodrama, that delivers nothing on the substance or emotional depth it dangles at the beginning.?Full Review
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In The House?
Patch Blogger Mark Glass:?*** This subtitled French drama is a fine film if you?re in the mood for a psychological suspense tale that borders between fascinating and creepy. A young student from a poor family situation works his way into the home of a more affluent, happier family, pretending to befriend and tutor their son. Meanwhile, he?s writing an ongoing story about them, which alternately intrigues and worries the teacher who is mentoring him. Has the old prof found a prodigy, or a pervert? A young Norman Mailer, or a Norman Bates?Full Review
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The Iceman
Patch Blogger Mark Glass:?*** Here?s a fascinating film if you?re one of the few people likely to find the gruesome, somewhat fact-based story of a cold-blooded mob hit man worthy of your attention. Michael Shannon is quite compelling as sociopath Richard Kuklinski, who supposedly whacked about 100 targets in and around New Jersey in the 1970s-80s before his arrest in 1986. He apparently lacked anything resembling human emotions except for his wife (Winona Ryder) and daughters, who knew nothing of his career until the end. Even self-preservation seemed relatively unimportant, other than as it related to fulfilling his roles as husband and father. Full Review
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