Southland Tales
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 11:32:04 CDT 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/movies/28lim.html?ref=movies
"Southland Tales," set to open Nov. 14, unfolds during the 2008
presidential campaign in a parallel-reality America. The country is
reeling from a 2005 nuclear attack in Texas and apparently heading for
an even bigger catastrophe. A cosmic phantasmagoria studded with
pop-culture luminaries including Dwayne (the Rock) Johnson, Justin
Timberlake and Sarah Michelle Gellar, the movie traces a tangled web
of interlocking conspiracies. The result is something like a Comic
Book of Revelation, an Armageddon countdown in a plastic-fantastic
universe where celebrities are military pawns in the Iraq war, and the
quest for alternative energy is linked to Nikola Tesla's tidal-wave
generator and a breach in the space-time continuum.
Trailer:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/325848/Southland-Tales/trailers
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