The film follows a troubled high school student, Sarai (Tdjiri Yakini), who is relentlessly bullied by everyone at her school. We soon find out that Sarai was responsible for the death of her best friend, Monét (Kasey Inez), in a fatal car accident. Sarai was the one behind the wheel. Monét is not a PSA on drunk driving but a PSA on not giving up during the worst of times....
When I pitched the idea of “Doubting Riley” to my manager, it took him all of five seconds to interrupt. It was right after I said, “It’s a comedy about an Irish Catholic gay guy-” He looked at me and wondered aloud if I could just try to write a comedy about a family that doesn’t have to deal with any social issues such as racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism — you know, like “Ferris Bueller” or “Sixteen Candles....
Things aren’t going well for Judith (Ally Maki) and Steve (Luke Roberts), a married couple seemingly on the cusp of divorce in the wake of the death of Judith’s mother. They’re keeping it together for the sake of their children and hope that a marriage retreat on the coast of British Columbia will help the sparks fly once again. They’re accompanied by their two daughters, pre-teen Stephanie (Nyha Huang Breitkreuz) and her impressionable younger sister Emmy (Remy Marthaller)....
Sayles has created something completely different with “Silver City.” It’s a political satire/noir/murder mystery/love story/drama, if you will, and it has one of the largest casts of any film this year. It’s also quite a great cast, notably for Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”), Richard Dreyfus (“Jaws”) and Tim Roth (“Reservoir Dogs”) who are the not only the most prolific but best actors in the whole damn thing. Slow paced, but interesting, “Silver City” is a decent flick that entertains primarily because of the political turmoil our own country is in right now....
But the next morning, Kevin’s psychotic older brother Pete (Jonny Phillips) stops by and discovers the dead body. Now he’s in pursuit of Jo and her brood. The family trip is off to a rocky start as Dylan hates it, though he only knows a little bit of what transpired. Tensions rise even further when Jo picks up a drifter named Tom (Craig Russell), who will ride along with them so long as he keeps the car running....
Anthony Mongiello is the son of a pizza maker. In the 1980s, they invented an innovative new pizza crust. They would take sticks of mozzarella cheese, line the outer rim of the dough with the sticks, and fold it over before baking. They dubbed it the “stuffed pizza crust.” The Mongiellos patented the process in 1987 and approached all the major pizza chains, hoping to strike a partnership. The only one to show the slightest bit of interest was Pizza Hut....
The woman is Ella (Aisling Franciosi), an animator who works with her dictatorial mother, Suzanne, played with mean intensity by Stella Gonet. Suzanne herself is something of a legend in stop-motion animation, and Ella wants to emerge from her shadow and work on her own ideas, but this is a notion her mother puts down firmly within the first act. As Suzanne’s hands are arthritic hooks, Ella’s predicament is total....
Based on the stage show written by Riley Thomas, Stuck concerns half a dozen subway passengers who are trapped on the same train car when it gets delayed due to a police investigation. Though this does not impact the story at all, as it is just a reason to get the theatrical, possibly homeless Lloyd (Giancarlo Esposito), the stern Sue (Amy Madigan), the self righteous but well-meaning Eve (Ashanti), the shy, artistic Caleb (Gerard Canonico), the dancer Alicia (Arden Cho), and the hardworking family man Ramon (Omar Chaparro) stranded together....
We also meet Karl (Ella Stockton), whose career as a rock star has ended as the lead singer of his band has disappeared. He starts being haunted by Alice (Thomasin Lawson), a free spirit with heart-shaped sunglasses that won’t leave him alone. These people enter the neon-lit creature movement in the city at night. They drift across each other’s stories while hurdling to their unknown fates as the sound of white noise sizzles across the sky....
The film starts with some documentary-style talking heads who explain that if you don’t learn to be tough, the streets will devour you whole. Or if you don’t grow up with essential things such as family to support you. The rest of the movie, through the lens of the main character Carlos (newcomer Dilan Felipe Ramirez Espitia), sets off to show us exactly what they’re talking about. Carlos is a small-time drug dealer who lives in a prison-like homeless shelter....
“Cards, Money, Two Guns”, 1998 Directed by: Guy Ritchie Starring: Jason Fleming, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham. Country: United Kingdom Duration: 107 minutes Guy Ritchie’s must-see debut film, in which his passion for gambling is linked to the intrigues of the underworld (spoiler: the same can be said for half the films on the list!). This low-budget black comedy was a sensation and made Ritchie a star director and Jason Statham just a star....
Aisha (Letitia Wright) is a young woman who stutters but is deliberately composed otherwise. “My name is Aisha Osagie,” she says into the phone. “I have to go home for an emergency funeral. I… I need help with that.” The voice on the other end is pleasantly neutral. “Okay. Could I get your registration number, please?” Moraya was alive days ago, terrified and in hiding but full of faith. Aisha is about to hear what she already knows....
These are some questions raised in British director Mike Leigh’s sweet gentle film. They are posed with a delicate grace becoming of one of cinema’s great poets. There are seas of nuances from which many meanings can be taken in this movie. Yet they all unfold in conversations. It’s a slam bang difference from what often passes as normal for movies. This is Leigh’s (Naked, Secrets & Lies) strongest film in a while....
As a feature length documentary, it seems to exist for those who are in the league, and who know the people being interviewed. Even though some get more of their personalities showcased, it feels like they’re supposed to be far more compelling characters to the audience than they are. At a certain point everyone becomes a variation of drunk and disorderly, which is fine the first two or three times, but then it’s like… hanging out with drunk people isn’t fun unless you’re drunk too, or unless you really know and like those people anyway....
Certainly more fun than its own studio gave it credit for being. 20th Century Fox elected not to screen the film for critics in advance of its release, a move widely viewed as the marketing equivalent of a wrongdoer turning himself in to police, providing a signed, notarized confession and then offering guided tours of the crime scene. Ordinarily it’s the public relations kiss of death. The question is what was Fox so worried about?...
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Lew Blink has dubbed himself the world’s first “Dumpster Archeologist.” You can find him in the dimly lit alleys of America (mostly his hometown) and rummaging through dumpsters. Sifting through the trash, he finds artifacts of the person who threw them away, and like a hipster Indiana Jones, he pieces their lives together. Along with showing us footage of Blink going through a dumpster, we return to his home, where 99% of everything you see was found on his expeditions....
Lee fantasizes about scenarios that make him, if only momentarily, relevant. He imagines his funeral or sees himself saving people from a burning building with frantic bystanders screaming, “That white woman needs help!” It eases the pain of life when he imagines the world as a vast computer simulation. Reacting to events that point to him becoming a middle-aged failure, Lee only whispers “f**k” under his breath. The gut punch that cements his fate forever is when he is told, on his birthday, that his girlfriend, Beth (Melissa Pond), is pregnant by another man....
How long did you think the film would take to make? Well, we started it in the Fall of 1988, we just got xeroxed contracts of all their territories that were sold through Alexander Beck Enterprises for “Deadbeat at Dawn.” We were convinced that were gonna make all this money so we thought, y’know, we can at least get the whole thing in the can. And we just started running into it and we shot probably half the film in the Fall of ’88....
I’ve heard some apologists (and there are a few) claim the film was a product of the times, and that may be true. I also know it was a re-imagining of “The Virgin Spring.” But it really boils down to a few thugs making a girl piss herself. Classic cult cinema? Yes. Enjoyable experience? Perhaps if you’re Gary Heidnik. Those of you who regularly read my column are asking yourselves, “Wait....
