wall·e (2008)

by zEke

Comenzaré diciendo que wall·e es la película más rica, cuca y mona que se ha estrenado en mucho tiempo. Tanto, que a más de uno puede resultarle más empalagosa que una sobredosis de azúcar. Y una vez dicho esto continuaré diciendo que wall·e es una gran película, pues de vez en cuando, a todo el mundo le apetece una fondue de chocolate. A mí, por ejemplo, me espera una mañana.

¿Qué pasaría si la raza humana se viera obligada a evacuar el planeta Tierra? Pues podría pasar lo que en la película se nos cuenta. Wall·e es el último de los compactadores de basura que queda sobre la faz del planeta Tierra. Su misión, compactar la basura que acabó por condenar a la raza humana al exilio a bordo de una estación espacial. Así, pasa los días compactando basura, recolectando objetos curiosos y anhelando la compañía del amor que nunca conoció. Robot, pero con sentimientos por supuesto. Su vida cambia cuando Eve llega al planeta Tierra en busca de una prueba que permita a la raza humana considerar su regreso. Y entonces, el amor. El amor y todo lo demás.

indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull (2008)

by zEke

Nineteen years later the hero is back. We have waited long, too long maybe, for the archaeologist to come back after Steven Spielberg and George Lucas saw, and explode, his potential back in the eighties. No less than three adventures in a decade. The hero is now older, the hat and the whip stay the same, what about everything else?

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is force to help Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) and her Russian army find an extraterrestrial creature with a mysterious crystal skeleton in a military base in the Nevada dessert. Once back in the Marshall College Jones is contacted by Mutt Williams (Shia LeBouf) who tells him Harold Oxley (John Hurt), and old colleague of Jones, has disappeared after discovering a crystal skull in Peru. No need to explain what follows.

my blueberry nights (2007)

by zEke

Those who know Chinese director Kar Wai Wong know how he likes to carefully take care of every single shot he fits in his movies. The suggestive in the mood for love (2000) and the melancholic 2046 (2004) are good recent examples of his meticulous care. my blueberry nights is no different to those on that sense and many will see it as a collection of beautiful shots that fail to build the story within. That is probably what, according to the reviews that followed, attendants to the screening of the opening film of the 60th Cannes Film Festival thought. I, respectfully, disagree.

Elizabeth’s (Norah Jones) boyfriend has left her for another woman. Heartbroken, she decides to start a cross country soul-searching journey around America that starts at Jeremy’s (Jude Law) little cozy café in New York City among blueberry pies and ice-cream. Along the way she meets random ordinary people that will help her find her way back to herself.

indiana jones and the last crusade (1989)

by zEke

Have you ever tried to whistle blend together the indiana jones, star wars and superman main themes? Neither have I.

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is asked by Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) to go after the Holy Grail after his father vanished while searching for a clue to its location himself. Donovan owns an incomplete stone tablet that might hold the key to the location of the chalize and points them in the right direction. Jones accepts and travels to Venice with Dr. Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) where he meets Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) and will discover that they are not the only ones interested in the location of the Holy Grail and that the Nazi army are also after it.