Writer/Director Alan Ball, the man behind the Academy Award Best Picture winner, ‘American Beauty,’ and HBO’s wildly popular shows ‘Six Feet Under,’ and ‘True Blood,’ brings us the story of a teenaged girl named Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) getting to know her ‘Uncle Frank,’ played exceptionally well by Paul Bettany.
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Let’s get to know the film by first breaking down the title, shall we? ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ First, the film is from the James David, better known as J.D., Vance memoir of the same name.
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The ‘Sound of Metal’ is remarkable storytelling. The situation is presented to the audience, so they feel empathy toward someone else while at the same time feeling pity for themselves.
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Based on the Jonathan Lopez book, ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers,’ this film is set in Holland just after World War II, where a man named Han van Meegeren, played by Guy Pearce, is being hunted down as a person who significantly profited off of the war at the expense of the Dutch people.
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In idyllic San Miguel de Allende, young Renato Murguia (Ian Inago) grows up best buddies with his dad Flavio (Juan Pablo Espinosa) in the early nineties, flying remote airplanes on grassy hills and amid colonial architecture, and dreaming of flying a real airplane. Read more
“The Climb” is a buddy movie, one with an honest look at male friends over many years. It is told with a quirky style and an unusual soundtrack. The two guys are best buds from back in high school days, and nobody ever said that growing older means that you also have to grow up.
Tom Putnam’s film ‘The Dark Divide,’ based on Robert Pyle’s book, ‘Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide,’ is about Pyle’s 1995 trek through Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
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‘Come Away’ had a lofty goal to reach when it set forth to combine two of the most cherished storylines in storybook history, those of ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland.’
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