Writer-director Fatih Akin follows up the lauded Head-On with another ambitious melodrama (part two in his Love, Death And The Devil trilogy). Shuttling between locations in Germany and Turkey, the Babel-esque narrative explores the connections between three families: a septuagenarian Turkish father living in Bremen with his academic son (Baki Davrak); a prostitute who sends money to her political activist daughter (Nurgul Yesilcay) in Istanbul; and a German mother (Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla) with a lesbian daughter. Strewn with coincidence and tragedy, The Edge Of Heaven is undeniably schematic in outline. Yet it’s shot in a precise, contemplative style and acted with clout by the ensemble cast. Akin’s compassion for the characters is clear, not least in the concluding mood of forgiveness.
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Jack Black stars as Jerry, an accident prone mechanic who gets caught in an electromagnetic field, in the New Line Cinema comedy Be Kind Rewind. Wandering the aisles of the video store where his best friend works, Jerrys magnetized brain causes every single video tape in the small-time neighborhood store to erase itself. The stores owner doesnt believe in DVDs and so the loss of all the video tapes causes an immediate problem. Fortunately, Jerry and Mike (Mos Def) come up with a plan to keep the customers satisfied. They remake the erased films using homemade props and a lot of imagination. Read On…
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George A Romero will always be known as the filmmaker with an affection for some may even call it an obsession with zombies. It definitely wasnt what Romero had in mind when he began making movies, but he knows the undead will always be connected to his name. I’d love to be able to go in and pitch another kind of film and be taken seriously, but I’m generally not taken seriously, admitted Romero. If I were to walk in there with a little romantic comedy, they’d say, What? So that’s a bit frustrating because you don’t grow up wanting to be a horror filmmaker. You grow up wanting to be a filmmaker, and I wish I had a wider range. I tried early on to do several films that were not genre and nine people saw them, so I don’t have the credentials in that regard. Read On…
Its not often a fantasy film aimed at the younger set is just as appealing to adults, but The Spiderwick Chronicles manages to capture that E.T.-ish/Goonies spirit and transcend generational boundaries. The Spiderwick Chronicles is not only good, clean fun, but also packs a surprisingly powerful emotional punch that makes it something really special. Read On…
