An Oscar-nominated film about the life of an undocumented worker in the United States is making its debut in Tacoma this weekend as part of the Tacoma Community College Diversity Film Festival, now in its second year.
Filmmaker Valerie Weiss is the founder of Harvard University’s Dudley Film Program. She served as its Filmmaker-in-Residence while earning her doctorate in biophysics from Harvard Medical School. She earned her doctorate, and then never touched another experiment again.
“You can be blase about some things, Rose,” Cal Hockley (Billy Zane) pretentiously sniffs about the big, doomed ship, “but not about Titanic!”
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” is a horror movie for parents.
Jon Bernthal was in a fight for his life recently. Or rather, his character on AMC’s post-apocalyptic series “The Walking Dead” was. He lost that battle – twice.
Daft, dazzling in design but straining ever so hard to be hip, “Mirror Mirror” isn’t your Uncle Walt’s “Snow White.”
“Jeff, Who Lives at Home” has to be the first film whose plot is propelled by a trip to Home Depot to buy wood glue. It’s certainly the best.
What’s the old saying – “3-D fool me once, shame on you, 3-D fool me twice, shame on me?”
What propels some people to intervene when they see a crime while others opt to look away and pretend nothing is happening? “In Darkness” uses the Holocaust to explore that question.
A pleasant fantasy with a crackerjack title, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” is a charming film whose few attempts at seriousness are best ignored. When Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor are your stars, that is easy to do.
With a hyped-to-the-hilt teen-friendly phenomenon such as “The Hunger Games,” the filmmaker’s first and foremost worry is to not screw it up. Gary Ross, who directed “Seabiscuit,” manages to get this nag out of the starting gate and across the finish line with no major blunders, but without much in the way of inspiration, either.
Jennifer Lawrence is relishing her last few weeks of anonymity. The 21-year-old actress understands her starring turn in “The Hunger Games” is about to change her life.
From lethal Lara Croft of “Tomb Raider” to marauding Beatrix Kiddo of “Kill Bill,” pop culture has provided plenty of action figures with Barbie-doll forms. But “The Hunger Games” might be a game changer, giving audiences the first megahit fantasy series led by a character whose soul is as important as her survival skills.
It’s ironic that the studio founded by the son of Hollywood founding father Samuel Goldwyn should be the one releasing “October Baby.” Apparently, the acquisitions department never took to heart Goldwyn the elder’s most famous Goldwynism about what movies are supposed to do:
“Sing Your Song,” a look at Harry Belafonte’s life both as star and activist, is really more of an effusive autobiography of the 84-year-old singer-actor than a traditional documentary, so be prepared for something close to sainthood in its tone.
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