Last weekend movies (11th week 2012)...

In order to try to keep a schedule, I'm scheduling this post way ahead of time...

1. Machuca, *****
   A look at the period of a few months before and after the coup d'état to Salvador Allende's socialist government in Chile through the eyes of two children at a private school in Santiago, one from a middle class neighborhood and the other from a shanty town. It's a quite sensible and shocking narrative that seems to go nowhere and then bam! hits you between the eyes.
   
   
2. Tomorrow, when the War Began, ****
   The war scenario idea behind this film is awesome! West Oz is stormed by Confederation troops and seized due to land scarcity in South Pacific Asia. Three coastal port cities are taken as foothold for the invasion. Some teens manage to escape the first wave of invasion because they were camping in the wild and now, they are back in town ready to raise hell. It seems like a second part is in the making.
   
   
3. The Men who Stare at Goats, *
   A journalist gone south in his personal life goes to Kuwait in hopes that covering the war will bring him some self-respect, but instead finds one of the men who stare at goats, a secret psionic operative of the 60s army. Really, the star is just because McGregor, Spacey, Clooney, and Bridges are all there.
   
   
4. Abduction, 
   I am seriously thinking to award one star as long as I don't fall asleep or finish watching the movie. A young guy raised to fight finds out he's not who he believes and starts a series of events that will transform his life into an international man of mystery.

Well, that's it.