Archive | November, 2008
Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married

Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is getting married, and her sister Kym (Anne Hathaway) is out of rehab for the occasion. Kym’s appearance throws her family into disarray, and everyone is forced to deal with various problems simmering under the surface. Sounds good? It’s really not.
The IMDb synopsis says that the movie “paints a colorful, nuanced family [...]

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Changeling

Changeling

Clint Eastwood has really become one of the best directors working in Hollywood today. He seems to have a thorough understanding of what works and how to simply tell a story without any overbearing moral lessons or special effects. His movies are subtle, and thoughtful, and really solid. The script was written by J. Michael [...]

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Surveillance

Surveillance

Surveillance is a new thriller starring Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond. It’s directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch (daughter of director David Lynch).
Two FBI agents (Pullman, Ormond) arrive in a small town in the middle of nowhere to help catch a serial killer. The movie plays out mostly in the police station as they interrogate three [...]

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Hunger

Hunger

Hunger relays the true story of the 1981 IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland. Lead by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), this was a strike carried out by the prisoners of the Maze prison in an effort to win political status. It dramatises the events in the prison in the six weeks leading up to Sands’ [...]

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Tokyo!

Tokyo!

To say that Tokyo! is a strange concoction would be to undersell it quite a bit. Three directors here present their own, separate, forty-minute segments — and they’re all inventive and a little bit crazy.
Michel Gondry’s Interior Design is about a young couple having just moved to Tokyo. He is an aspiring filmmaker, she seems [...]

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