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Page A20 - Shelton7Mason County Journal -‘ Thursday, Feb. 10, Review: Quirky flicks for something different on Feb. 14 continued from page A- 19 mob and the cops. Slater has never been cooler,‘Arquette has never been more adorable, and their love affair remains endear- ing and earnest, even as each plot twist grows ever more improbable and adrenaline— driven, thanks to Quentin Tarantino’s cra'ckerjack script and the sharklike momentum of Tony Scott’s direction. The supporting cast is insanely overqualified, but watch Out for James Gan- dolfini, six years before “The Sopranos,” as a hauntingly meditative hitman. ’The Crow’ I’ve mostly opted for films that feature their romances in the present tense, and rela- tively central to the plot, with fairly uplifting resolutions. The romantic relationship in 1994’s “The Crow” is over before the film even starts, as Eric Draven and his fian- cée, Shelly Webster, are left for dead on Devil’s Night in Detroit, the day before their wedding ~— “Who the f_ gets married on Halloween anyhow?” “Nobody” —— and one year before Eric returns from the dead as the Crow. But the emotional heft of Brandon Lee’s performance as Eric is how he invests every gesture with an encom- passing grief over having lost the one person in the world he loved the most. Whether he’s playing the. Crow as vengeful or remorse- ful, Lee comes across at every moment as bone-tired just from the effort of being alive. You see it in the small— est details, such as when the deeply underrated Ernie Hudson, as the one cop on his side, asks Whether he’s going to vanish into thin air again. When Lee replies, “I thought I’d use your front door,” his voice is practically choking back sobs, and his eyes are glassy with unshed tears. This is a man whose lost love has left him hurting so much that you feel relieved for him when he’s finally able to lay down and die a second time. A Besides being tragically romantic, “The Crow” is also a perfect Halloween film, so like 1993’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” it’s sea- sonally versatile. ’The Fifth Element’ Writer-director Luc Bes- son delivered in 1997 what should have been the live- action sequel to the 1981 animated classic “Heavy Metal,” transporting us to a Inside seating available. or Order to go at _ "360.761.0677 far-future outer space packed with enough background mythology for a dozen sci-fi franchises. An evil force prophesied by the ancient Egyptians has re- turned from the far reaches of the cosmos to destroy Earth in the 23rd century. All that stands in its way are a shell- shocked war veteran turned taxi driver named Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis marks “The Return of Bruno” to this list) and a girl without a past named Leeloo (the ethereal Milla Jovovich) who tells'him she’s “The Fifth Element” of legend: This is one of the few action-romance films where both halves of the couple pull equal duty in fighting scenes and emotional breakdowns. Jovovich’s Leeloo is a flawless combatant who is nonetheless horrified by war, and Willis’ Korben Dallas is a reflexiver effective soldier who'has to get over his own emotional dam- age to open his heart to Leeloo. And acclaimed French filmmaker Mathieu Kasso- vitz has a hilariously random cameo as an inventive but ill— fated mugger. ’Ever After:A , Cinderella Story’ As a decade, the 19905 wore its revisionarysPirit on its sleeve. This radical rein- terpretation. of “Cinderella” from 1998 makes its motives clear by setting the age-old fairy tale in Renaissance-era France and transforming its put-upon servant girl turned princess into a self—rescuing damsel in distress, whom we see espousing ideas that would have been almost anachroniStically progressive for that time. Years before Disney’s ' direct—to—Video animated sequels did the same in the 20005, Drew Barrymore’s Cinderella successfully re- deems one of her two “ugly stepsisters,” played by future “Yellowjackets” star Melanie Lynskey, even as her wicked stepmother (Anjelica Huston, clearly having the time of her life in the role) and her other stepsister are consigned to a deservineg dire fate for their mistreatment of her. And Barrymore’s Cinder- ella not only effects her own release, after being sold to a lecherous old landowner played .by Richard O’Brien (“Say hello, Riffl”), but she also broadens the mind of her Prince Charming (al- most-Wolverine Dougray Scott). All this, and we get to see Leonardo da Vinci (no, re- ally) makethis Cinderella’s gossamer-winged dress for the ball. ’Warm Biodies’ When I heard this 2013 film described as “Twilight” with zombies instead of vam- pires, I must admitI gritted my teeth. But What I actually got when I watched it was a delightfully canny, moving twist on “Romeo and J uliet” that manages to justify its “Power of Love” ending. In the years since he starred in 2002’s “About A Boy,” Nicolas Hoult has learned how to weaponize his alien strangeness into a winningly guileless charm. He puts this to good use as a zombie named “R,” who’s understandably discon- tented with the ennuiof his existence, not to mention' “conflicted about” those he’s killed, when his heart liter- ally starts beating again after he falls in love with a human girl named Julie, played by Teresa Palmer. Just as zombie plagues spread like viruses, so too does the resurgence of life and human emotions start to spread through the zombies, as a result of the love that grows between R andJulie. Bonus points to Rob Corddry as R’s zombie best friend “M,” and Lio Tipton as Julie’s friend Nora, both of whom supply plenty of laughs on the side (“Now you’re sup- posed to say ‘I’m pretty too.’ ”) _11 1 W. Cota St. in Shelton o M-Th '1 1-8 Fri-Sat 11—9 {Closed Sunday, inside the 40et8 Veterans Club. Membership not required to eat at Tasty Bites! l"