Dark City

Two budding American internet entrepreneurs – Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) - find themselves swindled of their business idea in Moscow. Frustrated and hanging out in a discotheque, they hook up with two female American tourists – Natalie (Olivia Thirlby) and Anne (Rachael Taylor). Things begin to turn really strange at the discotheque, when a power surge takes out the lights. Certain strange electrical beings are descending from space, and annihilating the human race (yawn). What makes The Darkest Hour mildly interesting is the form (or lack of it) of the aliens, and the mildly interesting pseudoscience consisting of Faraday cages, microwave bursts and whatnot. Even as the last remnants of the human race fight back, this is a movie which barely leaves a trace as you leave the theatre
10.5/20

Talking about a Revolution

Eliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and family are down and out. The man leaves a mediocre job uptown to salvage what he can of his parent’s motel in the Catskills. One nondescript day, upon a chance encounter, Eliot finds that there is the possibility of helping host a major hippie music concert in a neighborhood farm, and that would bring in business to the dilapidated motel. Things are not quite what they seem, and the few hippies metamorphose into the half a million visitors that would define a generation by Taking Woodstock and would change Eliot’s life forever. Another masterpiece from Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon fame. However, the movie could have done with a little more of Woodstock and a little less of the Tiber family – just to show what it all meant, if you know what I mean

13.5/20