by Coeli Carr | Jul 26, 2014 | Film, Film, Mercury
Luc Besson’s new sci-fi thriller Lucy could easily have been titled Mercury in Hyperdrive, a breathless tale about the archetype that rules thought and communication gone cinematically ballistic. Bigger, faster and stronger describe the new-and-improved mental...
by Coeli Carr | Jul 20, 2014 | Film, Film, Moon, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn
The grim espionage business relies, for its success, on Neptunian deception and Plutonic penetration of secrets. The most clever master spies throw a third archetype into the mix: the Saturnine User, who’ll exploit the captured by making them spy on their own people...
by Coeli Carr | Jul 18, 2014 | Film, Film, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto
If art is the beautiful lie, can love also be ushered into existence by duplicity? That’s the question at the center of Magic in the Moonlight, a movie inspired by early 20th century Europe’s fascination with spiritualism, seances and communicating with the dead....
by Coeli Carr | Jul 9, 2014 | Film, Film, Moon, Saturn, Uranus
In the annals of history, many liberators of the oppressed freed their citizenry only to become tyrants themselves. It’s this age old cycle of restrictive Saturn sidling up to revolutionary Uranus – a rhythm that topples and rebuilds civilizations – that’s at the core...
by Coeli Carr | Jul 6, 2014 | Film, Film, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun
For most of us, life is way too busy to allow for keen observations of minute gradations of growth and blossoming of family members, friends and other significant individuals who help grace our time on the planet. Perhaps it’s for this reason – our lack of attention...
by Coeli Carr | Jul 1, 2014 | Film, Film, Saturn
Mention the word “Tammy” and “movies” in the same breath and, with any luck, the visuals that come to mind center on Debbie Reynolds’ vocal rendition of the song “Tammy,” put to exquisite use by Terence Davies in his The Long Day Closes (1992). Reynolds’ tune is that...
