FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
CORROBOREE (Ben Hackworth) * [Digital projection]
A GIRL CUT IN TWO (Claude Chabrol) no stars
SON OF RAMBOW (Garth Jennings) *
WEIRDSVILLE (Allan Moyle) *
I've never had much patience for the brand of obnoxious humor exhibited here, i.e. exhausting pileups of preposterousness -- devil-worshiping serial killers get into fights with dwarf armies clad in medieval garb, while tiresome druggies trip over dumb, obvious one-liners. But Moyle makes good use of music (those ethereal street-gliding sequences seem to capture heroin's languid high), his energy bursts can be infectious, and his central duo -- Wes Bentley and Scott Speedman -- have a decent screwball rapport. Maybe on a better day my rating would be a bit more charitable, though not giving Taryn Manning nearly enough screentime makes me feel especially ungenerous.
