This engrossing film stars Pierfrancesco Favino, among a huge star cast. Set around a plot involving Ostia, a real estate development of a Las Vegas style town, this stylish neo-noir thriller has local mafia bosses, corrupt politicians and trigger-happy crazies running around.
Director Stefano Sollima (who also directed the series Gomorrah) helms this intense, fast-paced, gritty and pretty violent film.
A quirky, satirical comedy from late director Manish Acharya, this movie is about a desi singing competition sponsored by meat company “Loins of Punjab” in New Jersey. It stars the lovely Shabana Azmi, Darshan Jariwalla, Loveleen Mishra, Ayesha Dharker and a host of other Indian American actors.
The characters and their backstories are pretty decently and snarkily sketched. Relies heavily on stereotypes, but enjoyably so.
This Hindi film stars Swara Bhaskar as nautch girl Anaarkali. When Anaarkali doesn’t quite kowtow to the local politician or patriarchal social mores, she’s in trouble. She almost escapes the corrupt law, but decides to come back and even out the score.
Great acting, and nice attention to detail make this a film worth watching.
This cute romance stars Amy Adams as impetuous Anna Brady who decides to take matters in her own hands and propose to boyfriend Jeremy on Leap Day. Since Jeremy is in Dublin Anna must make her way to Ireland, a plan which doesn’t quite work.
En route Anna meets local, lazy-eyed Irishman Declan (Matthew Goode – who also plays Henry Talbot in Downton Abbey), and . . .
From write Joss Whedon and director Brin Hill comes this low-budget sci-fi-ish romance about two people who are connected telepathically. Rebecca Porter and Dylan Kershaw are thousands of miles apart, live very different lives, but are mysteriously “connected” to each other so much so that they can feel what the other is feeling.
I’m skeptical of films which go out on sci-fi limbs, but this film was unexpectedly good.
