A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England. Directed by Andy Cadiff. With Burt Reynolds, Alexandra Weaver, Elesia Ennis. John Henderson gives us his thoughts.
A thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a travelling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. John Henderson gives us his thoughts.
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A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 60’s. Directed by Richard Curtis. With Bill Nighy, Gemma Arterton, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Known as the pirate station Radio Rock its broadcasts annoy the prim government of the day because the official BBC stations were not playing rock and roll music all day long and Radio Rock defied government policy.
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Set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement, Before the Rains is the English language debut of acclaimed Indian director Santosh Sivan (The Terrorist, Asoka). An idealistic young Indian man (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss (Linus Roache) and a village woman (Nandita Das).
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Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin. The story of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk. John Henderson gives his thoughts on Sean Penn’s academy nominated performance of Mr Milk.
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Clint Eastwood’s fourth directorial feature in the span of two years starring Clint himself as well as Christopher Carley and Bee Vang.
Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino. John Henderson gives his thoughts on this week’s Rialto Pick.
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John Henderson gives us a film trifecta with the first being Suddenly, a film about an unexpected tragedy where a father and son survive a car accident that claims the life of the mother and youngest son. Caramel is a comedy-drama set around a Beirut beauty parlour where delicious, gooey caramel is cooked up for waxing legs. American Teen is the Sundance hit that follows the lives of four teenagers – a jock, the popular girl, the artsy girl and the geek – in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school.
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Suddenly Trailer
American Teen Trailer
Caramel Trailer
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh. John Henderson gives his thoughts on this new flick.
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John Henderson gives his verdict on In Bruges. A film about two men Holed up in Bruges, Belgium, after a difficult job, they begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs. Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes.
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Offensive, hilarious and obscene is how John Henderson describes this week’s Rialto Pick.
Directed by Clark Gregg. With Kathryn Alexander, Teodorina Bello, Kate Blumberg. A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
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