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Official Synopsis:
Time travel will be invented, but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper”—a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)—is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good. . . until the day the mob decides to “close the …

A girl, a bow and a Battle Royale
It’s been sometime since I’ve written on this site. That’s not for lack of cinematic interest, or, really, time, but of a change in priorities that’s been bubbling for sometime now. atonalFILM started as a way for me to get back in the creative groove, and to write about this medium which still fascinates and intoxicates me. Unfortunately it didn’t so much create a groove as …

Destined to send mainstream audiences fleeing from the theatre in confusion, and to send critics into an argumentative tizzy (Is is brilliant? Is it ambitious but masturbatory?), Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is an astonishing, infuriating movie. Attempting to capture the whole range of human experience – and plenty beyond that in sequences that depict the creation of the universe and the afterlife – it’s easily the most distinctive film of the …

Tarsem Singh’s Immortals is a drop-dead gorgeous revisionist take on Greek mythology, which name drops key figures but has very little to do with actual legend. Yes, the gods still preside over proceedings from Mount Olympus, and Theseus slays a (kind-of) minotaur, but everything else, from the beautiful renaissance-era costume design to the simple action-movie plot, is invented for the movie. That’s fine, because the director’s lurid and evocative visual sense is …

Jean Arthur deserves more attention. Today largely overlooked in favour of your Bergmans, Hepburns, and Carole Lombards, she is one of the screen’s finest commedienes. In the late 1930s-early 40s she rose to stardom with roles opposite screen icons Jimmy Stewart (You Can’t Take it With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, above), Cary Grant (Only Angels Have Wings, The Talk of the Town) and Gary Cooper (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), before …

There’s a fascinating premise at the centre of this scatterbrained sci-fi, in which people stop ageing at 25 and have to “earn” time in order to stay alive. Whether or not it’s ripped off Harlan Ellison’s 1965 short story “”Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman,” Gattaca writer-director Andrew Niccol does a fine job in establishing the clever rules of this dystopian future. Unfortunately it’s all downhill from there, with Niccol seemingly having no idea …

Americans, apparently, will sue you for anything. That’s what’s befallen the distributors of Drive, who are being sued by a short-sighted Michigan woman who claims that the film’s high-octane trailer promised a Fast and the Furious-style thriller. As ludicrous as this is, the trailer for Drive did play up the third act violence at the expense of the crisp and brooding atmosphere of much of the runtime. Critics have been fawning over the …

Fear not, since while The Three Musketeers contains some wooden acting, cheeseball dialogue and frickin’ blimps, it’s also thoroughly entertaining. Ignore the bits where D’Artagnan tries to seduce Constance Bonacieux, and the try-hard camp of Freddie Fox as King Louis XIII of France, and you’ll probably have a good, dumb time.
Battier than a card dealing gopher with a limp, the master behind Resident Evil: Afterlife and Death Race is back with his …

Woody Allen is one of the giants of cinema, and at 75 seems to show no signs of slowing down. Midnight in Paris sees him, if not with a new bag of tricks, at least with a freshness and verve that’s only sometimes present in his new millennium work. It contains all the usual Allen trademarks – neurotic artists, pseudo-intellectuals and the snappy, self-deprecating comedy, but the result is an infectious and exuberant …

It’s well established that Rachel Weisz, aside from being a rather fetching English dish and recently marrying the sixth Eon production actor to play James Bond, is an accomplished actress. She’s the empathetic soul of The Whistleblower, a taut but ultimately conventional thriller that’s does a slight disservice to the true story on which it’s based by being too didactic.
Weisz plays real life Nebraskan ex-cop, the UN-peacekeeper Kathryn Bolkovac, an imposing blond who …

Now that the minute hand has ticked past midnight on opening day, I’m now allowed to share my thoughts on Abduction, the new action-thriller starring Twilight werewolf-boy, Taylor Lautner. The absurd embargo on this film (which screened for the press only three days before release) should tell you something: this movie is terrible. Hysterical, all kinds of terrible.
And yet, like the best bad movies, it’s kind of watchable. Otherwise …