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If your town was split between two religions, and your fathers and sons, brothers and husbands were dying every day in petty squabbles fueled by hate from the outside world, to what lengths would you go for peace? In Nadine Labaki’s brilliant new film, Where Do We Go Now?, the Christian and Muslim women of an unnamed village in the Middle East employ every trick [...]
Kids are usually eager to grow up, but in the new film, Girl in Progress, one teenager who’s spent her entire life being a mother to her mother sees becoming an adult as her ticket to a life she believes will be better. But growing up is never as easy as it seems. Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) is a little bit too smart for her mother, [...]
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is based on the novel These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach and follows a group of British retirees, who decide to take their retirement in India, more specifically the newly restored Marigold Hotel. Seduced by the wonderful advertisements professing the luxury of the “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” the retirees arrive to find the hotel only a shell of what it [...]
All that stands between Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) and the coveted prize of Catholic Woman of the Year is her philandering son (Jason Ritter), her ex-alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady), and her gay daughter (Emily Deschanel) in The Perfect Family, a new movie by first-time director Anne Renton. This very timely film explores the ideology of a woman who is so desperate for absolution that she’s [...]
At this point you’ve probably already made your mind up about seeing The Avengers and all I can say is that it’s definitely worth the trip. The Avengers is not only one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, it’s also the biggest superhero movie ever made given the fact that it features so many of them. I should preface this review by saying [...]
It’s always a risky move to put your own fictionalized spin on something true. With every success there are bound to be failures. In the case of James McTeigue’s historical-fiction thriller The Raven, failure prevails over success. Yes, there are aspects of the film that work, but the whole is a sum of its parts. In this case, the parts are more contrived than well-conceived, [...]
Once in awhile, the stars align – from production to casting to marketing – to make a comedy that appears to have everything. You don’t have to research modern comedy to know there is a man behind most of these films – Judd Apatow. However, The Five-Year Engagement is proof that a lovable cast and funny premise doesn’t automatically make a film anything special. There [...]
Headhunters is a Norwegian action thriller film that will leave you on the edge of your seat for most of its duration. The film tells the story of Roger (Aksel Hennie), Norway’s most successful corporate headhunter, who despite seemingly having everything, including a beautiful model-looking wife Diana and a spectacular villa, also happens to be a very skilled art thief. While Roger has never been [...]
When I saw the first 12 minutes of Sound of My Voice (wisely released early on by FOX Searchlight) I couldn’t wait to see the whole film. And the fact that Brit Marling (who also wrote and starred in one of my all time favorite films, Another Earth) wrote and starred in the film didn’t hurt either. Sound of My Voice tells the story of [...]
Director Richard Linklater is well known for his dark comedies set in small, Texas towns (Dazed and Confused being the most famous so far), but in putting a spotlight on the true story of Bernie Tiede, the nicest murderer you could ever hope to meet, he didn’t just cast a lot of Hollywood talent to bring the small community of Carthage to life. He cast [...]
