Movie Notes: Celebrity
Synopsis
Writer Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) and Robin (Judy Davis) get divorced. Lee struggles to worm his way into the entertainment industry any way possible, while his wife finds success in her own way.
Movie Notes: Alien Resurrection
Synopsis
Two centuries after Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) death, she awakes to find herself amid a group of space traveling mercenaries and research scientists, breeding the deadly aliens.
Movie Notes: A Scanner Darkly
What’s good about A Scanner Darkly? Love for the Philip K Dick source material. Some surprisingly appropriate acting from Robert Downey Junior, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, and even Keanu Reeves. And certain key moments where the animation evokes the confusion and unreal moments of drugs.
But I see a failing that is sometimes attributable to recreational narcotics: an unfortunate tendency for the imaginer to apply too much profundity to their personal hallucinations. More simply put, an enlarged sense of self worth = ego.