FINDING FANNY- 2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Five Goans set off on a road trip in search of an old postman’s childhood love, Stefanie “Fanny” Fernandes, though nobody knows whether she’s alive or dead or just a figment of someone’s imagination.”
9/12/14- Just a few reviews and both professional critics and audiences have been mixed on this one. The NY Times did not like it. TRDB.
Add comment September 3rd, 2014
WETLANDS- 2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Eighteen year-old Helen Memel (Carla Juri) likes to skateboard, masturbate with vegetables and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. Struggling with her parents’ divorce, she spends her time experimenting and breaking one social taboo after the other with her best friend, Corinna (Marlen Kruse). When a shaving accident lands her in the hospital, she sees it as a way to reconcile her parents, but ends up forming an unlikely bond with her male nurse, Robin (Christoph Letkowski) in the process.”
9/1/14- Uniformly good reviews for this unusual sounding comedy/drama. An article about this film and about Juri appears in the Arts and Leisure section of the NY Times on Aug. 31. TRDB.
Add comment September 1st, 2014
THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “Set in a luscious art-nouveau apartment house in Brussels, this dizzying thriller begins with a businessman coming home to find his wife missing. But as he attempts to unravel the mystery, he finds himself plunged him into a surreal world.”
8/29/14- Poor reviews by critics and audiences as well. TRDB.
Add comment August 29th, 2014
LAST WEEKEND- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “A matriarch (Patricia Clarkson) asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster.”
8/29/14- Poor reviews. TRDB.
Add comment August 29th, 2014
THE CALLING- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef’s (played by Susan Sarandon) quiet life is shattered by a series of gruesome murders performed by a religious madman following a deadly higher calling.”
8/29/14- Poor reviews. TRDB.
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LIFE OF CRIME- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “After kidnapping a rich property developer’s wife and holding her for ransom, two small time crooks discover that their plan has a major flaw: their hostage’s philandering husband is in no rush to free her from captivity.”
8/28/14- Mixed reviews with some good and some very bad. TRDB.
Add comment August 28th, 2014
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “Told from two perspectives in two independent chapters, this engrossing drama depicts the dissolving union of Eleanor and Conor, who begin drifting apart in the wake of a tragic and traumatizing event.”
8/25/14- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
9/21/14- I got into this movie early on and very much enjoyed it despite a few loose ends in the story. I’ll be interested in what readers think of it. TRDB.
Add comment August 26th, 2014
BIRD PEOPLE- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “When two strangers yearning to escape their discontented lives eventually cross paths in a Paris airport hotel, neither of them is prepared for the series of surprises that follow their chance meeting.”
9/12/14- Weak reviews in general. TRDB.
Add comment August 26th, 2014
MY OLD LADY- 2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he’s shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager – an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale – and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith), who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloe.”
9/16/14- Fair critical review but audiences have liked it more. TRDB.
10/13/14- I liked it both because of the superior talent involved and the story but more because of the superior talent.
Add comment August 26th, 2014
IDENTICAL- 2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Identical twin brothers (both played by Blake Rayne) are separated at birth during the Great Depression. Their parents (Brian Geraghty, Amanda Crew) just cannot afford to give them both a life beyond poverty, so one is adopted by loving family. Despite their very different upbringings, the boys’ shared passion for music causes their lives to unknowingly intersect as they experience a powerful and mysterious connection often felt by twins.”
8/25/14- No reviews as yet. TRDB.
Add comment August 25th, 2014