If I were a member of the Academy I would give the Best Actor gong to Javier Bardem for his heart-wrenching performance as Uxebel in ‘Biutiful’. It’s not that I do not appreciate Mr. Firth’s stunning stammering turn which will inevitably get him the Oscar, its just watching Mr. Bardem intriguingly peel back all the … Continue reading
The opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick him up … Continue reading
A young boy leaves the comfort of the big city where he lives with his Italian mother to make the long trek to join his Mayan father on a remote coral reef off the Mexico coast. The parents are divorced so this is an opportunity for the lad to get right back to nature and … Continue reading
Aleksandra is desperate to escape the small industrial town where she grew up and move to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and to fund her studies and the expensive apartment she is buying there she advertises her services as a prostitute in the classified ads. This is the year that it is Slovenia’s turn at … Continue reading
Lars is a young Danish soldier who is resentful because he has been thrown out of the Army after being accused of making a pass at some of his men. Frustrated at being back home with his pushy interfering mother, and unsure of where his life is going, he becomes easy prey for a local … Continue reading