‘Movie Corner’ Archives
“The Lobster”
\Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Comedy Rated: R **** of Five Stars “The Lobster” casts modern love relationships in dystopian form and also casts, somewhat in a cynical way, how society constantly insists on couples. David (Colin Farrell) finds out how cruel the world is when his wife leaves him and he”'s all alone. He seeks out a surreal compound where he has to find a mate in 45 days or be transformed into an animal, of course, of his choice. He chooses to be a lobster even though he has a dog with him. Everybody is only known on a first name basis and the rules at the resort are rigorous. Violations of the rules can meet with punishment during the trial time. Men and women are required to attend seminars on relationships. While David”'s at the resort he meets two other singles “Lisping Man” (John C. Reilly) and “Limping Man” (Ben Whishaw) trying to find a mate. But David tries to settle with a woman which doesn”'t work. When he escapes [...]
“High-Rise”
BY HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howardsmoviecorner.com                                                  howardmcquitter68@gmail.com *** of Five Stars Action/Sci-Fi/Drama From the beginning of Ben Wheatley”'s “High-Rise,” the signs of a disturbing venture are in store for the viewers. Just minutes into “High-Rise,” the setting backs of three months earlier when a doctor Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) after recently losing his sister moves into a spacious apartment on the 25th floor of this futurist high-rise (would be in the 1970s here). (J.G. Ballard”'s 1975 novel adapted to silver screen by Ben Wheatley with the same title.) Laing goes on to say he feels he”'s living in the future that has already taken place. Whether or not, Laing is aware of what is [...]
“Hail Caesar”
“Hail Caesar” **** Comedy/Mystery PG13 Our beloved Minneapolis (St. Louis Park, exactly) native directors, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, bring forth “Hail, Caesar!”, another off-the-wall comedy, screwy, boisterous similar to their other comedies “The Big Lebowski”(1997), “O Brother, Where, “Burn After Reading” (2008). Like an old-school western, the Coens”' “Hail, Caesar! “rewinds the clock back to the Hollywood of the 1950s. What “Hail, Caesar!” does for me”“at least”“in the nostalgic sense, when I was a boy sitting in a theater (one screen) watching the fullness of CinemaScope, the new larger than life invention in 1953.There”'s a lot here that more than meets the eye, I mean, in “Hail, Caesar!”, especially for a baby boomer like myself. To start off, Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is the head of Capitol Studios with his loaded hands of keeping a struggling studio [...]
