Category: Drama
A New Awkward Clip from ‘Welcome to the Rileys’
October 19th, 2010, Comments Off
Comingsoon.net has just debuted a new clip from James Gandolfini’s drama, Welcome to the Rileys. From what I hear, the movie isn’t too bad and if this clip isn’t an indication of some of the awkward scenes to come from the film than I don’t know what awkward is anymore. Below you will find details [...]
Out Of Africa
September 5th, 2010, No Comments
Having recently endured the mildly entertaining Australia with Nicole Kidman (would someone please give this woman a decent script!), I thought it best to revisit a true classic of the Grand Epic genre, and there is no better example than Out of Africa. Based on the works and life of Karen Blixen (who wrote under [...]
Francesco
September 4th, 2010, No Comments
This film was made before Mickey’s many plastic surgeries to repair the aftermath of his boxing career. Initially I found this film difficult to follow secondary to the editing. Mickey Rourke tries to put on a quasi English accident which is distracting at first. However, Mickey Rourkes performance is so powerful that I not only [...]
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.
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.
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.
Inglourious Basterds
December 7th, 2009, No Comments
A Jewish cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent) in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi movie premiere, where a radical group of American Jewish soldiers called the Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans to roll out a score-settling scheme. The face-off is about to go down — that’s if Col. Hans Landa aka “The Jew Hunter” (Christoph Waltz) doesn’t get in the way. Quentin Tarantino directs this World War II-set spaghetti Western.
My Sister’s Keeper
November 29th, 2009, No Comments
A former defense attorney (Cameron Diaz) finds herself back in the courtroom when she and her husband (Jason Patric) are sued for medical emancipation by their 11-year-old daughter, Anna (Abigail Breslin), who is expected to donate a kidney to her dying older sister. The subsequent trial tests ethical boundaries and the limits of parental love. Joan Cusack and Alec Baldwin round out the cast in this powerful drama based on Jodi Picoult’s novel.
The Wire: Complete Season 1 Box Set
October 19th, 2009, No Comments
Creator David Simon’s gritty HBO drama takes an unflinching look at Baltimore’s drug culture, through the eyes of both the dealers and the police. Season 1 follows the investigation of a violent drug-dealing crew known as the Barksdale Organization. But the line between good and bad is blurred, as the cops push the boundaries of morality while even the hardened criminals display flashes of humanity. Dominic West stars as detective Jimmy McNulty.
