Archives: 2010 January
Infamous
January 19th, 2010, No Comments
Director Douglas McGrath’s biographical drama stars Toby Jones as iconoclastic writer Truman Capote, whose literary investigation into the grisly murders of a rural Kansas family has unintended consequences. While probing the psyches of the killers (played by Daniel Craig and Lee Pace) as research for his soon-to-be best seller In Cold Blood, Capote forms an attachment to one of the convicted men. Sandra Bullock and Jeff Daniels also star.
Big Trouble In Little China
January 18th, 2010, No Comments
Taking them through a shadowy world filled with supernatural creatures and spectacular action, regular guy Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and Gracie Law (Kim Cattrall) try to track down a 2,000-year-old magician, Lo Pan (James Hong), who has kidnapped Burton’s friend’s green-eyed fiancée. John Carpenter (who helmed the original Halloween) directs this adventure tale set in San Francisco’s Chinatown district.
14 Kilometers
January 17th, 2010, No Comments
Violeta, a teen who lives in a riverside village in Mali, has only an arranged marriage with a lascivious old man to look forward to, and decides to run off to a faraway place. Meanwhile, in neighboring Niger, mechanic Buba is a skilled soccer player. His brother Mukela suggests he should try his skills in Europe. Violeta meets the two boys when they’re all loaded on a large truck, with many others, in central Niger. The route is across the pitiless expanse of the Tenere desert toward Morocco, via Algeria. They’re dropped off in the desert a four-hour walk from Tamanrasset, in southern Algeria, but end up going round in circles, and the horrors begin to mount.
11:14
January 6th, 2010, No Comments
Five seemingly random story lines intersect at precisely 11:14 p.m. in this innovative drama-thriller written and directed by newbie filmmaker Greg Marcks. Even though they’re strangers, Buzzy (Academy Award winner Hilary Swank), Mark (Colin Hanks), Cheri (Rachel Leigh Cook), Jack (Henry Thomas) and Eddie (Ben Foster) will become a part of one another’s lives — even if it kills them. Patrick Swayze and Barbara Hershey co-star.
10
January 5th, 2010, No Comments
Writer-director Blake Edwards’s celebration of the la dolce vita 1970s stars Dudley Moore as successful but discontented songwriter George Webber, who becomes obsessed after getting a glimpse of the stunning Jenny Miles (Bo Derek, in her film debut) as she’s en route to say, “I do.” He stalks the honeymooning newlyweds all the way to Acapulco, where, after saving the life of Jenny’s new husband, George gets the perfect reward.
About Last Night
January 4th, 2010, No Comments
A definitive Brat Pack movie of the 1980s, About Last Night stars Rob Lowe and Demi Moore as two veterans of the Chicago singles scene trying the “c” word: commitment. James Belushi is Lowe’s wisecracking sex advisor, and Elizabeth Perkins (in her film debut) is Moore’s doubting girlfriend. This adaptation of David Mamet’s play Sexual Perversity in Chicago marks the feature debut of director Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai).
Is Paris Burning?
January 3rd, 2010, No Comments
Jean-Paul Belmondo heads the star-studded cast (which includes Charles Boyer, Kirk Douglas and Alain Delon) in this drama directed by Rene Clement and co-written by, among many others, Francis Ford Coppola and Gore Vidal. Although World War II is nearly over, the Germans wage one last effort at destruction in Paris. But the French Resistance won’t let them win — not when Allied victory is so close at hand.
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
January 2nd, 2010, No Comments
Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the family before leaving his money to them. He takes a room in their home and a job in the father’s shop. He anonymously grants them $100,000. Harriet Blaisdell moves the family into a mansion and makes plans to marry her daughter Millicent off to a socialite rather than her soda jerk boyfriend Dan. The money goes to their heads, and they soon find themselves broke, back in their old house, and back to their old lives. Father back in his shop, Millicent engaged to Dan, and everyone seemingly much happier. Hoping they learned their lesson, Fulton takes his leave of the family.
Because I Said So
January 1st, 2010, No Comments
In an effort to prevent family history from repeating itself, meddlesome mom Daphne Wilder (Diane Keaton) attempts to set up her youngest daughter, Milly (Mandy Moore), with Mr. Right. Meanwhile, her other daughters (Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo) try to keep their mom’s good intentions under control. Tom Everett Scott, Colin Ferguson and Gabriel Macht also star in director Michael Lehmann’s multigenerational mother-daughter comedy.
