Before Midnight...

To start off with, Jim Carrey has been officially cast in Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall and that gives an added reason for watching this one-of-a-kind superhero flick releasing in June 2013. Also It’s been a week where Marvel Studios has not come out with another The Avengers’ goodies, thankfully, making it a week where attention can be diverted to other movies in the queue. 

And one that has caught the attention is the already-completed sequel to Before Sunset which was a sequel to Before Sunrise, titled for now Before Midnight. The film is going to be floated around for potential buyers in the coming week. Set in Greece, Before Midnight brings back the lovely couple, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and follows the story after Hawke was on the verge of missing his flight in Before Sunset. There is a cult following that the first two movies enjoy and for easy-to-guess reasons, not only for the clever witty intertwined dialogues of the leading cast (for both the movies are largely about the couple sharing their ideas and philosophies on a range of topics), but also for the boldness of making such different movies without the melodramatic drama and the gun-blazing action that usually hit the big screens. A refreshing change indeed! While the audience may or may not subscribe to the ideologies of any of the characters, the openness with which the thoughts are shared as the couple walk around the streets of Vienna in Before Sunrise and in Paris in Before Sunset, the playful banter mixed with the meaningful discussions, and the bond which two strangers end up sharing, has for some reason a very calming effect, that one can appreciate only when one has been a part of this journey. Hoping that Before Midnight lives up the standards set by the previous two! Before you step in for this one, grab onto the other two, if you still haven’t seen them.

While emergence of Before Midnight has brought in exciting news, the recently released trailer of Hansen and Gretel: Witch Hunters has left a bad taste in the mouth. This was one of the movies I was looking forward to (and would probably still end up at the theatres cringing my way though it with the help of a tub of popcorn), not only for the appealing idea of the fairy tale brother and sister growing up to become hard-hitting ass-kicking witch hunters, but also to catch Jeremy Renner in action once again who seems to be doing nothing wrong. While roles in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Avengers left a strong impression about him, his lead role in The Bourne Legacy has done nothing but enhance his reputation further, as he has managed to leave his own mark on the famous series. But somewhere something has to go wrong, right? With the rather sleazy dialogues and the appearances of laughable than scary witches in the first trailer, I would be betting that Hansen and Gretel: Witch Hunters, releasing in January 2013, might turn out to be the movie that Renner would want to smudge from his resume. Maybe I might be proved wrong, and if that turns out to be the case I would happily add a coke as well to the tub of popcorn! Till next time...