remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”
— Steven Spielberg
The Secret Life Of Words is about Hannah, a hearing impaired factory worker (Sarah Polley) who is forced to take her first holiday in years and ends up traveling out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man, Josef, suffering from severe burns who is also temporarily blind (Tim Robbins). There are six other people on the rig, which has been shut down due to the accident that led to Josef's injuries.
Read MoreThe film takes place in Buenos Aires in 1999 as retired Argentinian federal justice agent Benjamín Espósito is writing a novel, using an old closed case as the source material. The case happened 25 years ago and it’s one that he has never been able to forget. The film cuts back and forth between present day (1999) and the mid-70s as events unfolded.
Read MoreDavey is an unpublished writer driving around New Mexico with his brother giving readings of his short stories and trying to sell a few copies of his book. One night in his motel he gets a call from Nicole. He doesn't know who she is, but they end up having phone sex - and so begins Easier With Practice.
Read MoreAt Home By Myself... With You is a small Canadian film I discovered back in the day on Netflix Canada (not sure if it’s still there). Now, don't let the "quirky" "romantic" Netflix tags scare you off. We all know that romantic comedies - quirky or not - are generally predictable by nature, not always that interesting and often not really that funny. But, it doesn't have to be that way, as At Home By Myself... With You proves.
Read MoreAway We Go is a great little romantic-dramedy that takes our main couple (Burt and Verona) on a road trip of sorts, as they try to decide where to make their life with their baby that is due in three months.
Sam Mendes, known from much darker and dramatic fare (American Beauty, Road To Perdition, Revolutionary Road, 1917...) does a really great job with this film. And the script from Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Eggers' wife) is great.
Read MoreElegy: a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
The first film I saw from director Isabel Coixet was The Secret Life of Words. And that was by accident, when my PVR recorded the wrong movie. However, it was a happy accident because I really liked that film. So, back in 2008 when Elegy was released I made a point of going to see it in the theatre. And, I was very happy I did.
Read MoreThe Wackness: The year is 1994 and our hero, Luke Shapiro, has just graduated from high school. He isn't one of the cool kids (he might be the most popular of the unpopular kids or the least popular of the popular ones), but they all know him because he’s their pot dealer. He also deals to this psychiatrist who happens to be the step dad of this chick he has a huge crush on...
Read MoreTaika Waititi was nominated for an academy award for his short film Two Cars, One Night back in 2003 and more recently his film JoJo Rabbit picked up a number of Oscar noms and Waititi got a win for Best Adapted Screenplay. But lets go back to his first full-length feature, Eagle Vs Shark. And what a wonderful debut it was.
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