A DARK TRUTH January 4th 2013

 

Garcia plays an ex-CIA op-turned political talk show host. He’s hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village. The film draws attention to man’s inhumanity and unconscious actions against the environment and questions if there is a moral and ethical obligation when talking about boundaries, borders and human interaction. With the ever-increasing depletion of earth’s natural resource of water serving as the backdrop, a multi-national corporation disregards basic human needs that result in widespread illness and a people’s uprising. The distress causes unlikely allies to conspire and seek redemption for past deeds and the greater good.

Release date:January 4, 2013

Blu-ray Review: Men In Black 3

it's been ten years since the last "Men In Black" movie gave us a Burger King in MIB HQ, Frank the Pug in a suit, and Johnny Knoxville's second talking head, the stink of the second movie in the series hung around just long enough to make the possibility of another one seem like more of a threat. And as news trickled out about "Men In Black 3"--Tommy Lee Jones was getting sidelined for most of the movie, chief among the problems--every indication was that we were headed for another disaster.
But this time traveling plot, which sees Will Smith's Agent J hurtle back to 1969 to save his partner and the timeline, doesn't just get the series back to its roots, but ends up being... touching?



After one-armed criminal Boris the Animal escapes from a lunar prison, the already brittle relationship between J and K starts to deteriorate as it becomes clear that there's something the senior agent is holding back about the alien escapee. But before J can coax some answers out of his partner, Boris erases K from history, forcing J to hop back to 1969 to prevent K's murder and prevent an alien invasion by tentacled spaceships. All J has to do is go back in time (in a wonderfully inventive sequence), kill Boris, avoid the younger version of K (Josh Brolin), and get back to 2012

Josh Brolin's great here as the younger K as is the late 6's version of the Men In Black and New York. Brolin's K has a lighter touch than his older counterpart, easy with his smile and sweet on junior agent 0 (Alice Eve) and around the margins, we start to realize something really horrible is coming that will shake K so much that it's closed him off in the future. Plus, "Boardwalk Empire" and "A Serious Man" star Michael Stuhlbarg has a sweet and funny part as an alien blessed and cursed with the ability to see into all variations of time--he holds the secret to 1969 J and K's mission and that it might be a success, but could still end badly for them.

That's where "Men In Black 3" ends up being so effective and so touching: the movie treads takes its time to make the characters feel like people this time out. Whereas J and K felt like the two bickering halves of a comedy duo in the second movie, we get to see some of the roundabout, sad friendship they've developed over 15 years.by charles webb