— by BEV QUESTAD — Norway’s entry for consideration for a 2014 Oscar didn’t make the final cut, and when you see it, you’ll know why. A pretty single mother, Mina is starved for love and affection but has no idea how to get it. Soon enough, a man begins a flirtation on the street […][...]
Review: The Galapagos Affair
— by BEV QUESTAD — Ever get so disgusted with the government that you would like to branch out, so to speak, to your own uninhabited island? This is the way it was in 1929 for two Germans, Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch. They were totally disillusioned with society, calling it “a huge impersonal monster […][...]
24: Live Another Day: Super Bowl Teaser
— by JOSUE SANCHEZ — In what might be described as brilliant advertising, this past Sunday’s Super Bowl teaser for “24: Live Another Day” really delivered. For the fans of the show, it gave them a taste of their hero —and heroine— back in action, and newcomers to the show got a taste of what […][...]
Review: The Wind Rises
— by BEV QUESTAD — The 86th Oscar nominations have bravely, and rightly, fingered “The Wind Rises” as one of five works for Best Animated Film. At home in Japan, the film opened with overwhelming success and abrupt, surprising controversy. The same will happen here if it wins for best animation. That’s why the Academy […][...]
Review: Labor Day
— by JESSIKA OWENS — When I heard the name of a new movie, “Labor Day,” I immediately envisioned a tame comedy chick flick. Then the trailer was released and I became confused. That initial trailer was short and filled with dramatic crescendos. An image of Josh Brolin with his hand over Kate Winslet’s mouth […][...]
See 2014’s Oscar-Nominated Short Films
ShortsHD, the world’s only Short Movie Channel in high definition (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, will open “The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014” in over 250 theaters across the United States, Canada and Europe on Jan. 31, with more than 400 theatres slated to screen the films during its theatrical release. In its ninth year, […][...]
Review: Call Me Kuchu
— by BEV QUESTAD — Religion, culture and politics menacingly collide in this documentary over the life of a proposed political bill in Uganda and the life of David Kato. In what turns out to be a more dangerous culture of vigilantes and extremists than they had bargained for, filmmakers Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika […][...]
Berlinale selects initial 7 competition films
http://www.tbcredit.ru/zaymyi.html быстрый займ на карту 1000 Starting in mid-January, the Berlinale poster will be displayed at the Potsdamer Platz and across the city, and so set the mood for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place from Feb. 6 to 16, 2014. “The Berlinale Bear is and remains an extremely popular mascot […][...]
Review: American Hustle
— by RON WILKINSON — “The Fighter” mega-stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams reunite with director David O. Russell in a pot-boiling romp through political and law enforcement corruption in the morally adrift 1980s. Bale plays con man Irving Rosenfeld who, after founding a string of[...]
Review: Nuclear Nation
— by RON WILKINSON — After a sequence of electrical and mechanical failures stemming from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami that smashed into the Fukushima prefecture on Japan’s East coast, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reactor containment vessels exploded, blanketing the area in radioactive debris. “Nuclear Nation” is the latest documentary […][...]