The most provocative film from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW should not exist, and yet it does. Like nothing you've ever seen, Randy Moore's directorial debut is a bold and ingenious trip into the happiest place on earth. An epic battle begins when a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairytale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious.
watch captain phillips online Captain Phillips” unfurls with an intensity that knocks the wind out of you. Director Paul Greengrass’ film — which opens the 51st New York Film Festival tonight before hitting theaters Oct. 11 — is the most gripping based-on-fact film so far this year. In turning a nonfiction book into a high-tension action-drama, Greengrass (“United 93,” “The Green Zone”) has made cinematic gold. It’s like a sea-bound “Dog Day Afternoon,” only with the hostages as the heroes. But instead of a milquetoast middle manager, the title character is played with guts and gusto by Tom Hanks. Hanks’ Phillips is a career seaman, with a wife (Catherine Keener) in Vermont and two kids in college. In March 2009, he takes a job helming a cargo vessel from Oman to Kenya.
There's an appealing daring to a director who casts Mel Gibson being a clairvoyant plutocrat aiming to start Planet War III just before jetting off to his area station. Greater than that, it takes real chutzpah to possess Cuba Gooding Jr., Walton Goggins, Lady Gaga, and Antonio Banderas all perform exactly the same character, the elusive, tellingly named Chameleon, a wise-cracking assassin with all the power to make distinct faces.
-- Edited by ainsleyen on Wednesday 9th of October 2013 12:48:18 PM
