What a charming show.
A 35 year-old woman moves back in with her parents in the wake of a separation leading to divorce. In an effort to pull her out of her despondency her parents insist she attend a dinner party for her father's new clients. Their 19 year-old actor son is smitten.
This leads to a summer fling and regained confidence.
Charming and worth full ticket price.
This Samoan film is lovely and slow in the good way. It moves at a pace that reflects the mix of tradition and accidental modernity of the film.
It is the story of Saili, a man lacking the confidence to vie for his late father's roll as chief and orator in his village. Part of his lack of confidence comes from his stature, more because he lets his dissatisfaction rule him.
It is only after his wife, banished from her village and disowned by her family for having an illegitimate child, dies and her brother steals her body to bury it at "home" that he stands up for himself and takes his place in the world.
Worth at least the price of a matinee.
I'm not cut out to be a reviewer, because I have a hard time being mean. I can make an exception for Simon Killer.
The main character, Simon, is an American in Paris after breaking up with his college girlfriend. Not a bad start. The story is ok until the end. The character of Simon uses people, especially women. He is loathsome and goes through life and the film with hardly a scratch.
People may not always learn lessons or get what's coming in real life but I expect a little of that from the movies.
Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, not a bad start and both were wonderful as a professor investigating claims of metaphysical phenomena and a famous psychic respectively. Weird things happen to Weaver and her assistant, most are explained away with physics or as simple scams with assistants and ear pieces.
The performances were all strong, the characters interesting, and the ending left a lot of the audience head scratching.
I suspect this movie has great box office potential but it wasn't my cup of tea. And I got the ending.
I laughed, a lot. Some truly fun, practically slap-stick moments. Some disgusting, look away moments (people left). I laughed and never have to see it again. Maybe for two am insomnia channel surfing. But if you're a Tim and Eric fan you'll probably enjoy it.
I was really pleased with all six of these shorts. Five of them were just funny. Laugh out loud in the right places funny. Tooty's Wedding and A Morning Stroll were my favorites.
I don't understand the programming decision which included the excellent piece about Somali pirates, Fishing Without Nets, in this group. Not funny, not meant to be. I'm glad to have seen it, but it didn't fit with the group.
A year ago expat Egyptian filmmakers returned to Cairo to make a documentary on street kids. But the protests that heralded the Arab Spring broke out shortly after they arrived.
This is an intense, personal look at the protests from within the crowds and from the filmmakers' friends' balcony.
Timely and worth seeing, but not at full theatrical price. Hope for a showing on PBS.
This rock and roll mystery would make a silly, implausible feature film. I would walk out saying it isn't realistic. That's what makes it such a grand documentary.
An American singer-songwriter whose two records flopped disappears from the music scene. Except for having phenomenal success in South Africa where his songs were embraced by anti-apartheid liberals.
Let's just say rumors of Rodriguez's death were greatly exaggerated.
Picked up by Sony and worth a full price ticket.
An Indonesian martial arts film by a Welsh director, this is one of the most violent movies I have ever seen. It is also a very good story about family, loyally and duty. Because of the violence I recommend it cautiously. I would pay full price to see it.
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