Movie Capsules by Barry Epstein, Oct. 18, 2013 Opening at Cinemark, Regal Entertainment Shadowwood, FAU Living Room, and Movies of Delray Escape Plan **1/2 Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger co-star for the first time (no, The Expendables movies don’t count) as convicts who attempt a daring prison break. Ray Breslin, the worlds foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Also starring Vincent D’Onofrio. Directed by Mikael Håfström (1408, Evil). R 116 minutes. Two and a half stars. The Fifth Estate ** WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and a colleague, Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl), join forces to become watchdogs over actions of the privileged and powerful. Despite scant resources, they are able to create a platform for whistle-blowers to leak covert data anonymously, thereby exposing government secrets and corporate crimes. However, a major battle erupts when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest cache of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history. Bill Condon (Kinsey, Showgirls) directs this drama about the price WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his partner Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) paid after they starting posting classified documents online. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Dan Stevens, Alicia Vikander, Carice van Houten, Anthony Mackie, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney, Peter Capaldi, David Thewlis. R 128 minutes. Two stars. Carrie * 1/2 High school can be tough for many teenagers, but for Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), its especially hellish. A shy and awkward teen being raised by a religious zealot (Julianne Moore), Carrie is frequently the target of bullies. But Carrie has a secret talent: She can make things move with her mind. One fateful night, an especially cruel prank at her senior prom pushes her over the edge, and Carrie unleashes her telekinetic powers on all who get in her way. Chloë Grace Moretz takes over for Sissy Spacek as the bullied teen with telekinetic powers in this “reimagining” of the Stephen King novel. Director Kimberly Pierce (Boys Don’t Cry) reportedly consulted with Brian De Palma, who made the 1976 original, before shooting began. Julianne Moore co-stars as Carrie’s fanatically religious mother, who turned out to have a point when she warned her daughter “They’re all gonna laugh at you!”. Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell, Gabriella Wilde, Ansel Elgort, Barry Shabaka Henley, Karissa Strain, Samantha Weinstein, Katie Strain, Demetrius Joyette, Arlene Mazerolle, Evan Gilchrist, Jefferson Brown, Cynthia Preston. R 99 minutes. One and a half stars. Barry Epstein is president of Barry R. Epstein Associates, (publicrelations.nu) a full service public relations, marketing and political consulting firm based in Boca Raton, Fl. and the president of the Luxury Chamber (luxurychamber) the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce and president of the West Boca Leaders. (westbocaleaders). He also hosts a weekly internet television show on wrpbitv, also seen on vimeo, publicrelations.nu and other sites; and writes a weekly column/blog on the bocatribune website and on the front page of the Sun-Sentinel/Jewish Journal website (barrys-journal.blogspot) For more information, visit publicrelations.nu or call 561.852.0000.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 03:57:09 +0000
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