A world of experience at Jewish Film FestivalSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 3:36AMWith laughs, chills, thrills, historical retrospectives and a special screening of the classic "Spartacus," there's something for everyone at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Dharma to bring back Raichand sagaSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:18AMMumbai, July 15 : Karan Johar's Dharma Productions is planning to make a sequel of its decade old blockbuster home production, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.
"Viva Riva!" is by-the-numbers tale of criminal trying to make it bigFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 12:22PMThe Democratic Republic of Congo is a very different place from the settings of most gangster films we see here, but "Viva Riva!" would be right at home in a collection of underworld movies. This is a mostly by-the-numbers tale of a young criminal trying to make it big.
'Pianomania' documentary may have sounded like a good ideaThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:08PM"Pianomania," a documentary about piano tuners and technicians, is potentially interesting, but not when it has to compete with dramatic footage of musicians such as Lang Lang actually playing the piano. The film is playing at the Varsity, in Seattle.
Burdened in a Ravaged South AfricaThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 4:50PM“Life, Above All,” a grave and quietly moving story about a South African girl of extraordinary character, does something that few painful dramas accomplish: It tells a tale of resilience without platitudes about the triumph of the human spirit or without false promises about an unclouded future.
Wild Cherry (Blu-ray)Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 8:56PMSkip It So, at one point in Wild Cherry , there's a montage of some football player jerking off into one of those plastic ice cube tray thingies, day after day after day, and those jizz-cubes wind up getting dunked [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] into a ... Read the entire review
Mexican actors landing big roles in U.S. showsWednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:46PMA few years ago, Eugenio Derbez, Mexico's most popular comic actor, got some well-meaning advice from a Hollywood executive that still makes him smile.
DVD reviews: There are some real issues raised in 'Of Gods and Men'Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 6:47PMLeading this eclectic collection of DVD releases is an emotional true story of eight French monks caught up in Algeria's...
The Music Room: The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:11PMHighly Recommended THE MOVIE: It's too bad Criterion didn't release their edition of Satyajit Ray's The Music Room at the same time they released Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited . Anyone who has spent any time with the more recent movie's soundtrack will instantly recognize the song that opens The Music Room . Indeed, Anderson used lots of cues from older Indian films in Darjeeling , and ...