In the 2154 have vs. have-not world of Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, the wealthy and elite have taken up residence in a well manicured pseudo-planet in the sky. To the down-trodden masses in Los Angeles, that domicile overhead, which is called Elysium, gleams. It’s Utopia, pure and simple – a Neptunian vision to aspire to, or […]
Astrology: Fashion: ‘We’re The Millers’: Jennifer Aniston’s White Eyelet Blouse
August 6, 2013 by
In We’re the Millers, the white eyelet blouse worn by Rose, played by Jennifer Aniston, is a clever costume ploy designed to instantly telegraph character. Rose, a stripper by profession, has no illusions about nudity. But when new sexual demands at the club force her to draw the line and quit, she accepts – for […]
Astrology: Film: ‘We’re the Millers’ (2013)
August 6, 2013 by
What constitutes a family – nature vs. nurture – is the question at the heart of We’re the Millers, a road movie whose four-member clan is brought together as a family (Moon) by ulterior motives and Neptunian deceit. In the movie, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, the guy who’ll become the ring-leader patriarch is Dave […]
Astrology: Film: ‘The Spectacular Now’ (2013)
August 6, 2013 by
For many teens, even those with good grades, high school is a four-year stretch of fuzzed out, Neptunian captivity. The overall blurriness – a minimally defined sense of self, ample opportunity to idealize the wrong people and pursuits, and a dose or two or unrequited love – sends young minds scrambling to inhabit utopian fantasy […]
Astrology: Film: ‘2 Guns’ (2013)
July 30, 2013 by
The boundless movement, talk and sibling-like play that pervades 2 Guns makes this movie Mercurial to the core. The leading male characters are undercover DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and Marcus “Stig” Stigman (Mark Wahlberg), a naval intelligence officer who’s gone AWOL. The two men, as we learn, stumbled upon each other a while […]
Astrology: Film: ‘Blue Jasmine’ (2013)
July 25, 2013 by
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine is the assured work of an older artist unafraid to make the point that people typically go to their graves clutching the archetypes they’ve been projecting and embracing for decades, no matter how self-destructive. Blue Jasmine, the character, is actually Jeanette (Cate Blanchett), who took on her flowery moniker years earlier […]
Astrology: Film: ‘The Time Being’ (2013)
July 24, 2013 by
Does being an artist – free to boundlessly create in unbridled Neptunian fashion – mean having to forsake all else with Saturnine stringency, discipline and ambition? This age-old question is explored in director and co-writer Nenad Cicin-Sain’s The Time Being, in which Daniel (Wes Bentley), a talented, committed but financially unsuccessful painter, gets an opportunity […]
Astrology: Film: Movie Funnel Vision
July 19, 2013 by
Cinematic cosmic funnels seem to be having a rebirth this summer. R.I.P.D. has made such a channel part of its endgame – previously a one-way trip for the newly dead in an upward direction, the bad guys now want to make it a two-way street so the evil dead can tumble back to earth. Also […]
Astrology: Film: ‘R.I.P.D.’ (2013)
July 19, 2013 by
R.I.P.D., a movie in which dead cops do right by the living when they join the Rest in Peace Department, boasts a “good” dead Boston cop, Nick (Ryan Reynolds), whose moral compass went temporarily askew on earth. There’s the sort-of-dead “bad” Boston cop, Hayes (Kevin Bacon) who killed Nick. And there’s also Roy, a blustery […]
Astrology: Film: ‘The Conjuring’ (2013)
July 16, 2013 by
When the most formidable house-bound evil is the kind you can’t see, you need a special kind of clean-up patrol. In The Conjuring, directed by James Wan, the spiritual scouring is left to real-life couple and paranormal investigators Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson). Lorraine, now 86, and Ed, who died in 2006, […]
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