Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” has been getting good reviews and enthusiastic responses everywhere. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the first feature film by Benh Zeitling (30) is an unusual mix of fantasy and down-to-earth description of a bayou-like community living in a fictional island. …Continue Reading
‘Meek’s Cutoff’, the latest movie by Kelly Reichardt (‘Old Joy’, ‘Wendy and Lucy’), is loosely based on a true event that happened in 1845. A group of settlers following the Oregon Trail split from the main group and tried to take what was supposed to be a cutoff through the Oregon desert. The guide, named …Continue Reading
A wealthy Yemeni sheikh, Muhammad (Amr Waked), wants to introduce salmon fishing to his dry homeland. To that end, he entrusts the project to an efficient assistant, Harriet (Emily Blunt), who recurs to a rigid, boring scientist named Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) to design a plan for bringing salmon to the country and create the …Continue Reading
The latest American blockbuster is an adventure film which takes place in a dystopian future, in which every year 24 kids between 12 and 18 years old fight to death until there is only one survivor. These are the ‘hunger games’, a televised show established by a totalitarian government that rules from the wealthy and …Continue Reading
Despite some old-fashioned effects and costumes, this 1951 movie directed by Robert Wise stands the test of time.Shot in black and white, the film follows the arrival of an extraterrestrial flying saucer to earth, carrying a human-like alien named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and a powerful robot, Gort. The flying saucer lands in Washington DC, with …Continue Reading
