Archive for August, 2009

house-of-numbers

House of Numbers English Movie 2009
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Director Brent Leung is a brave man. But what makes his explosive documentary, House of Numbers, so undeniably effective, is that he didn’t set out to be. As he tells us in the film, he was born in 1980…part of the first AIDS generation, a group who came into [...]

rashevskis-tango

Rashevski’s Tango English Movie 2009
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Director Sam Garbarski marked his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with the family-comedy drama Le Tango des Rashevski (The Rashevski Tango), a tale of one extended family’s struggle to find meaning and identity within their own somewhat dormant Jewish heritage. When 81-year-old family matriarch Rosa Rashevski passes away, her [...]

shanghai

Shanghai English Movie 2009
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I was in the minority of critics that actually gave Jackie Chan’s last buddy picture The Tuxedo a passing grade. Sure, the plot is a throwaway and as Chan’ s super-spy partner, Jennifer Love Hewitt is a complete miscast. But thanks to Chan’s great charisma, the movie transcends its doldrums. So [...]

dead-tone

Dead Tone English Movie 2009
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Plot:Finals at the prestigious University of Dreyskill are finally over and it’s time to party. “The Crew”, as they are known by their peers and dorm mates, are invited to a rich classmate’s hideaway mansion high up in the hills of Colorado. What was supposed to be a weekend of [...]

tickling-leo

Tickling Leo English Movie 2009
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In the days before Yom Kippur (aka the Day of Atonement), Zak Pikler takes his pregnant girlfriend Delphina to find his estranged father in the family drama Tickling Leo. When they reach the man’s home in the Catskills, he finds his father has turned into a hermit and is suffering [...]