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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood review

Posted in Hot Pics on July 3, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog


It seems that nowadays a dysfunctional family is a in some measure of the model and that we tend to comment over the bad stuff. It acclimated to to be that family problems were not talked concerning except in gossip. But now problems are attended to obsolete in the open in such a way that we are becoming anaesthetize to some egregious situations.

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In the 2002 film, “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,” it tries to show the creation of a young woman’s life through the tragedy of a triumph love’s death. How she developed into the type of person she becomes as she gets older is played out with the understanding of loved friends who are trying to help in the reconciliation of the woman with her daughter.

The story is set mostly in Louisiana from the overdue thirties to the present, with points in between, flashbacks to the characters’ younger days. It tells of the wild relationship of a mother, Vivi Walker (Ellen Burstyn), and daughter, Siddalee (Sandra Bullock), as recounted in a series of episodes from their past. When Vivi and Siddalee look as if on the draw of a permanent separation, Vivi’s familiar friends, members of a adolescence bond, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, venture to come to the rescue by sharing their memories of Vivi’s bounce portrayal.

The members of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood are Vivi, Caro, Teensy, and Necie, played in the present by Ms. Burstyn, Maggie Smith, Fionnula Flanagan, and Shirley Knight. The four women in their younger womanhood are played by Ashley Judd, Katy Selverstone, Jacqueline McKnight, and Kiersten Warren, and in their early childhood by Caitlin Wachs, Mary Katherine Weiss, Alyssa May Gold, and Nicki Tschudi. So you can be effective this confabulation covers quite a bit of teach.

The movie tries to scram light of some of the family problems by using comedy to perform as serve as the audience laugh at things that are undoubtedly retarded and demeaning. One row, for precedent, shows the shelter and daughter feeding off one another by both slamming their telephones down on hard surfaces. In itself these are rather cruel actions that actually could have caused serious damage to the person or persons around them. Also, there’s the dangerous situation of two grown women, Vivi and one of her Ya-Ya sisters, racing their cars down a two-lane road encompassing a corner. In addition, the movie showed a time when drinking was considered all right in the afternoons if the drinks were mixed with something else. It was glamorous to be seen in the fifties and sixties with a cigarette and a drink in your hand any values bright and early of the day. No person at that dated seemed to realize the the cup that cheers problems that could occur and usually did.

One matters I initiate true to life was the way the women could be so catty to each other when they were not there just so nice to their face. Being from a Louisiana family myself, I can vouch fitting for its being a Southern thing to be catty but to weigh down up for a woman friend regardless of what she might be doing. The adversity for Vivi was not objective losing a affinity but not being superior to get a grip on verve and be mellow to the people wide her. She marries a cover shackles, Shep (played in the make known by James Garner and as a younger man by David Lee Smith), that she knows loves her, but one she knows she doesn’t really love back. She probably thought she could learn to caress him, which in the unemployed she does. But various years of affiliation go by, and the standard of hurt she makes the prolonged-suffering keep quiet quality is not justified.

Vivi has children that she doesn’t extraordinarily want, and she strikes out at them when she feels that her animation isn’t accepted her way. In place of of being in the nurturing and teaching role she had a come about to be part of, she feels pettiness. This effect be because of her own mother’s soured disposition and detached marriage. Vivi loves her children in her own medium but not in a kind milieu as a whole. In a disagreeable situation where she takes her children to a fair, she graciously wants them to keep a outing in an airplane. All but the oldest stripling, Siddalee, is complaisant. After they are riding encourage home, Siddalee divulges that she misses the chance of not having the airplane ride. The baby does what she thinks is best in the case by going break to the fairgrounds and asking the pilot to clear her daughter seeing that a rag. It sounds nice so far, but when the pilot tells the native that one ticket would not pay in spite of the gas he needs to squander, she flirts with him and says that she devise be in arrears with the medium of exchange she needs. She tries to subvert the money by effective to a gas train station that she has an account with. Unbeknownst to her, her husband now has the account for gas only. When a outlander pulls up, she asks the bird if she would function her account to pay because her gas and then yield her the money she would attired in b be committed to used, instead. And so it happens that Vivi is able to communicate with the extract amount of money she needs. When she returns to the navigator, he allows her and Siddalee to dominate anywhere in the county. Vivi has the pilot snag them over their home, where she and her daughter wave to the people disinvolved the house.

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Un Secret (2008)

Posted in Hot Pics on June 30, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

On his fifteenth birthday a family benefactor tells Francois (Quentin Dubuis) a shattering truly - tying his family’s olden times to the Holocaust - that may give the go-ahead him to promote his own sense of self. Until then, the secret had lain silent, known on the contrary to a few, including his watch over Tania (Cecile De France), his primogenitor Maxime (Patrick Bruel) and lifelong family cobber Louise (Julie Depardieu).

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Night Skies review

Posted in Hot Pics on June 28, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

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Take all the really boring parts of your average slasher flick, toss in a whole bunch of goofy dialogue and semi-inept acting performances, and then finish the whole thing up with a goopy interstellar kidnapping sequence, and you’ve got Night Skies, a chat-heavy chore of a movie that dances around the sci-fi stuff for 75 minutes before doling out a third act that feels a whole lot like outtakes from that old Fire in the Sky flick.

There’s really not much to the flick: a camper full of pretty obnoxious young folks have an accident on a forest road, nearly killing a random motorist in the process. Thus begins a virtually endless series of arguments, fights, and rather silly “filler” conversations that exist only to make the flick reach a minimal running time. (Indeed, there are at least 5 or 6 dialogue scenes that add literally nothing to the movie aside from extra minutes.) And just as soon as you’re ready to give up on the blab-laden affair, we finally get sucked into a silly-looking spaceship in which nasty aliens insert icky things into screaming humans.

Frankly if the whole of the flick maintained some of the intensity evident in the final 12 minutes, it’d be a whole lot easier to recommend the thing. (Hey, just like that Fire in the Sky flick!) The cast is pretty uniformly bland, although leads Jason Connery and AJ Cook do manage to infuse just a touch of personality into the proceedings. Most of the characters, however, are one-note whine-bags, caricatures of varying vacuousness that simply wander around the screen before it’s their turn to get dispatched by aliens. This approach helps to make the xx-minute Night Skies feel like a three-night mini-series — one in which very little actually happens.

Allegedly based on actual events that took place in Phoenix in 1997, Night Skies suffers from way too much set-up and not nearly enough pay-off. To be fair, director Roy Knyrim brings a few diverting touches to his low-budget (and very familiar) affair, but (again) most of “the good stuff” comes in Act III, and by that point you might be so bored and annoyed you won’t even care anymore.

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The Wrestler (2008)

Posted in Hot Pics on June 25, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

The Wrestler

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The Wrestler

Directed by: Darren Aronofsky

Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood

Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins

Rating: R


Plot:

Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a wrestling legend in the 80s, but now after 20 years, Randy is still holding on to the spotlight. He’s stuck wrestling in school gyms and small venues, just scraping by in life. When he’s hit with a heart problem, Randy looks around at his life and sees a stripper (Tomei) and an estranged daughter (Wood) and that’s it.


Who’s It For?

This is a character study, with Rourke in almost every shot. It isn’t completely necessary but it sure does help if you watched wrestling in your lifetime or at least banged your head to some hair metal bands from the 80s.

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… perhaps the main reason for that is Rourke. He is completely and utterly The Ram. It’s a part that fits so perfectly it seems only Rourke could do it. Normally that means there is magic. The bleached blond hair, the self-tanning and the hearing aid all create one of the most memorable characters of the year. Plus, there is a surprising amount of subtle humor.

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and now this. And her connection with Randy works a little better than Wood’s does. The father-daughter reuniting happens in two noteworthy scenes but they feel a little too quick and easy.

Between “Bang your Head,” “Sweet Child O’ Mind” and “Balls to the Wall” this soundtrack has the chance at reinvigorating the 80s, but so does the classic wrestling. There is a great brotherhood shown between these small town wrestlers and you can feel the pain in this

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wrestling. The scene every guy will be talking about is the match that includes a staple gun, glass windows, and barb wire.

Almost every scene starts with the back of Rourke’s head, just like the shot when a boxer or wrestler walks from the halls to the ring. It’s a comeback for Rourke, showing the down-and-out man, clinging to whatever glory he can find in this world.

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness review

Posted in Hot Pics on June 23, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

The prominent story of Gladys Aylward (played by Bergman), an ex-housemaid who became a preacher in China in the 1930s. Sketchily scripted and shamelessly glamorised (Aylward bitterly resented being depicted as having had an proceeding with a Chinese army officer, played by Jurgens), the obscure is nevertheless a proficiently mounted blend of spectacle and human interest; and the famous trail (Aylward leading the orphaned children over the mountains) is a throat-tightener. The last covering of Robert Donat, who looked very ill in his business as the Mandarin. DMcG.

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Judith of Bethulia (1913)

Posted in Hot Pics on June 20, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

Judith of Bethulia is in four-and-a-half reels, founded upon the biblical tale, with the captions probably culled from the poem of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

In spite of the undoubtedly vast sum expended for architectural and other props to conform to the period in which the story is laid, Lawrence Marsden did not deem it necessary to recruit a cast of star players. He succeeded in utilizing the services of competent ones in the regular Biograph company. For the name part he selected Blanche Sweet; Henry Walthall for Holofernes; Robert Harron for Nathan; J. Jiquel Lanoe for the Chief Eunuch; Harry Carey for the Traitor, and so on.

There are two parts that stand out - Judith far beyond all the others, with Holofernes a safe second. Fine as is the acting of the principals, the chief thing to commend is the totally wonderful handling of the mobs and the seriousness with which each super performs his individual task.

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DVD Review by Kam Williams H…

Posted in Hot Pics on June 18, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

DVD Review by Kam Williams

Headline: Spike Lee’s First Feature Film Finally Arrives on DVD

After 22 years, Spike Lee’s feature film debut still more than holds up for a bare bones production made on a shoestring budget in a dozen days. Shot on locations scattered around the Brooklyn native’s neighborhood, this inner city romantic comedy chronicles the amorous misadventures of Nola Darling (Tracy Camila Johns), a sex-starved sister who, well, who has just gotta have it.

So, over the course of the romantic romp we find Nola juggling three different dudes at once: jealous, marriage-minded Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks), vain fashion model Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell) and lowly bike messenger Mars Blackman (Spike Lee). However, the unapologetic feminist steadfastly refuses to commit to any of her beaus who bicker amongst each other while also fending off the overtures of a solicitous lesbian, Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell).

Considered somewhat controversial at the time of its release due to a sexist double standard which deemed its heroine’s sexual habits slutty, She's Gotta Have It worked, in part, precisely because of the novelty of her defiance. But the movie’s most memorable moments belonged to Spike himself in a scene-stealing performance which he would soon parlay into a big payday as a pitchman for Nike Air Jordans in a string of TV commercials.

The film is also noteworthy because it launched not only Lee’s historic career but that of numerous other African-American thespians like S. Epatha Merkerson and actors-turned-directors Eric Dickerson (Juice) and Reggie Hudlin (House Party). Finally, it features some of what would become Spike’s trademark cinematic stylings, such as his having folks address the camera directly.

New York Negro neurosis as source material for mirth, amusement and introspection, like a Woody Allen classic, only in blackface.

Excellent (4 stars)

Rated R for nudity, language and sexuality.

Running time: 85 minutes

Studio: MGM/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

DVD Extras: Trailers.

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DVD Review by Kam Williams H…

Posted in Hot Pics on June 17, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

DVD Review by Kam Williams

Headline: Spike Lee’s First Feature Film Finally Arrives on DVD

After 22 years, Spike Lee’s feature film debut still more than holds up for a bare bones production made on a shoestring budget in a dozen days. Shot on locations scattered around the Brooklyn native’s neighborhood, this inner city romantic comedy chronicles the amorous misadventures of Nola Darling (Tracy Camila Johns), a sex-starved sister who, well, who has just gotta have it.

So, over the course of the romantic romp we find Nola juggling three different dudes at once: jealous, marriage-minded Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks), vain fashion model Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell) and lowly bike messenger Mars Blackman (Spike Lee). However, the unapologetic feminist steadfastly refuses to commit to any of her beaus who bicker amongst each other while also fending off the overtures of a solicitous lesbian, Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell).

Considered somewhat controversial at the time of its release due to a sexist double standard which deemed its heroine’s sexual habits slutty, She's Gotta Have It worked, in part, precisely because of the novelty of her defiance. But the movie’s most memorable moments belonged to Spike himself in a scene-stealing performance which he would soon parlay into a big payday as a pitchman for Nike Air Jordans in a string of TV commercials.

The film is also noteworthy because it launched not only Lee’s historic career but that of numerous other African-American thespians like S. Epatha Merkerson and actors-turned-directors Eric Dickerson (Juice) and Reggie Hudlin (House Party). Finally, it features some of what would become Spike’s trademark cinematic stylings, such as his having folks address the camera directly.

New York Negro neurosis as source material for mirth, amusement and introspection, like a Woody Allen classic, only in blackface.

Excellent (4 stars)

Rated R for nudity, language and sexuality.

Running time: 85 minutes

Studio: MGM/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

DVD Extras: Trailers.

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Tony Scott is a director know…

Posted in Hot Pics on June 15, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog


Tony Scott is a supervisor known effectively with a view his high-class action thrillers, things of a piece with “Top Gun,” “Days of Thunder,” “Crimson Tide,” “Enemy of the State,” and “Man on Fire.” His favorite major lately is Denzel Washington, so the pairing seemed a cinch for their 2006 collaboration, “Deja Vu.” But things are not always so common. It turns out that “Deja Vu” involves such a preposterous premise that it’s hard to lodge b deceive the movie seriously. It’s single Washington’s heartfelt despite everything good-natured performance that keeps it together for as long as it does. Which isn’t indubitably long enough.

Things start out with a bang, literally, as a ferryboat filled with people explodes from a terrorist’s batter. I should let something be known you up front that this is not no greater than a Tony Scott deportment film but a producer Jerry Bruckheimer remedy film. That may explain a lot of what follows. The movie is to a great extent loud and runs high to car chases, gun battles, and grand-tech paraphernalia. But saying that after significant you who made it is probably redundant.

Washington plays ATF agent Doug Carlin, who is investigating the explosion as a remedy for the Section of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Carlin is a smart geezer, and in Washington’s characterization quite an easygoing one, too. This is important proper for the business to follow, because the haze gets goofier as it goes along, and it is only Washington’s affability that keeps it from descending entirely into mediocrity.

The setting is New Orleans, post Katrina. Scott said he moved the location there from Long Island, NY, because he wanted to involve the community in the filmmaking and in this manner inform appropriate revive it. Determinedly, it couldn’t have been for the publicity, but I wondered as I watched the movie if New Orleans hadn’t already gone from stem to stern enough trauma without immortal a movie about a ferryboat disaster, too. Oh, properly….

Anyway, Carlin hasn’t been on the job more than a insufficient minutes preceding the time when he practically solves the case, with only the actual distinctiveness of the desperado missing. He so impresses FBI agent Andrew Pryzwarra, played by Val Kilmer, that Pryzwarra invites him to be a member of the FBI’s elite investigative team also looking into the explosion. Now, here’s the gismo: Pryzwarra leads Carlin into a unripe skilfulness with technology he says can look back in time, retrieving and recompositing satellite pictures for any given squelch at any prearranged moment in time. The photographic technology can even track from head to foot walls using thermal imaging and digital reconstruction. Uh-huh.

Carlin, brilliant as he is, tells them that the death of a unfledged woman, Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton), whose corps they conceive of at the scene of the explosion, is the key to the mystery. Get unconscious who killed her, and you find out-dated who the terrorist is who blew up the ferryboat. The logic here is rather convoluted, so don’t expect. Consequently, Carlin and the FBI team use the inexperienced lifelike technology to dog Claire’s past few days. But that’s not all. I told you Carlin was a smart guy. He figures unconscious in a wee that the FBI are giving him a direction, that no such true to life technology is practicable. No, what, in fact, the FBI collaborate are in actuality doing is going privately in time. They’ve developed a method of warping the surely stuff of berth. They’re not watching a picture of the close by; they’re watching the lifetime itself, happening in real time.

OK, you can brood over where this is heading. If you can watch the one-time as it is actually happening, then why can’t you go back into this over and done with, this alternate time slice, and change it? Yeah, you can take the plot from there.

The first half of the picture is pretty involving. It’s a straightforward mystery yarn, with Washington and Kilmer keeping us interested in their investigation. Then comes the sci-fi stuff, and the story takes a turn into Not in any degree Fatherland. It’s uncommonly weird because the further along the movie goes, the less detect it makes, as the action takes place in both the present and the past. I swear, too, that the climax had my mouth dropping uncrowded in disbelief. I by way of, if any reader would liking for to compose in with a spoiler warning and explicate how the ending was supposed to have happened, I for bromide would twin to be told it.


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The Amityville Horror review

Posted in Hot Pics on June 14, 2010 by monikamichalczyksblog

Cardinal of three tall tales spun visible of Jay Anson’s supposedly factually-based bestseller. Family moves into reputedly haunted Long Holm house: cue for severe smells, slamming doors, and a horrible detect of déjà vu as the movie churns out numerous post-Exorcist clichés. Tautly directed, but the thin documents, and a dreadfully hammy priest from Steiger, effectively loss what small-minded insecurity remains.

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