New subject: STARMAN FAMILY-CON 2016

28 Apr 2016

      CONVENTION DATES.... Is there a convention this year...my deadline for
confirmed vacation time in Sept is tomorrow..  yikes
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Fw: It's not starman, but.... (George Wells)
Fw: It's not starman, but.... (George Wells)

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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:21:39 +0000 (UTC)
From: George Wells gwellssss@yahoo.com
To: Thomas Dachsel via STARMANET starmanet@starmanet.com
Subject: [SN] Fw: It's not starman, but....
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Below is part of?a m0vie review from www.rogerebert.com?that is
considered very good and had some resemblance to STARman, particularly the
tv show....Best, George wellsSubject: It's not starman, but....
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? March 18, 2016 ??|?? Print Page How far would you go to protect your
child? What if saving him meant letting him go? Jeff Nichols? brilliant
?Midnight Special? weaves relatable themes of parental responsibility and
faith in that which is traditionally unexplainable into a sci-fi road
movie, with echoes of John Carpenter, Steven Spielberg, and Stephen King
bouncing throughout. So many modern blockbusters err on the side of
hand-holding, underlining their plots and character motivations with
consistent expository dialogue or overly defined narration. There?s this
bizarre concern by Hollywood that audiences will rebel if they don?t fully
understand what?s going on at every given moment, and so characters talk to
themselves, motivations are spelled out in voiceover, and everyone,
especially in action movies, speaks of what they have to do and why they
have to do it. ?Midnight Special? respects your intelligence, letting you
come to its themes emotionally instead of narratively. It is a breathtaking
display of visual storytelling, confidently rendered by someone who
understands the power of cinema.Nichols, who also wrote the film, plunges
us into the action of the piece immediately. Two men?Roy (Michael Shannon,
who has appeared in every Nichols film) and Lucas (Joel Edgerton)?are in a
motel room, watching a news story about a manhunt involving a kidnapped
boy. The boy is in between the two beds in the room, reading comic books
with a flashlight. His name is Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and he?s special.
He?s so special that an entire religious sect has sprouted up around him,
led by Calvin Meyer (Sam Shepard). As Roy and Lucas flee into the night
with Alton in the backseat and wearing night vision goggles so they can
turn off their headlights to make themselves harder to spot, Calvin?s
compound is raided. It turns out everyone is looking for Alton.The FBI
brings in a specialist to meet with Calvin?s flock named Paul Sevier (Adam
Driver), trying to figure what they know about the boy and exactly what
this golden child means to them. It turns out that the cult of Alton
worships numeric sequences that the potential prophet has been revealing to
them. It also turns out that these numeric sequences mean something to the
government, and they want to know how a child knew them. Finally, the
numbers seem to be pointing Alton, Roy and Lucas to a specific location.
Lucas is one of the recently converted?through a special power that Alton
has to convey something transcendent through beams that shoot from his
eye?but Roy's devotion is purely parental. Both men need?to get Alton?there
in time; nothing will stop them.The drive of Roy, Alton?s father, is made
clear in an early scene in which the trio encounters a state trooper. He
sees their license plate and looks like he?s about to call it in when Roy
and Lucas draw on him. Is their mission important enough to kill a cop?
Roy?s drive to do what he thinks he needs to be done for his son is
motivated by the passion of fatherhood, but is Lucas? purpose as committed?
And how will Alton?s mother, played by Kirsten Dunst, respond? ?Midnight
Special? is masterful in the way it keeps answering questions and then
asking new ones, always staying one step ahead of the viewer. It?s a
testament to Nichols? direction that we trust..... [snip]
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