Hi all,
Hope everyone has enjoyed our renewed winter season. We have lots of new movies and documentaries this week to warm your mind.
See you soon.
Human Experience:
Two brothers search for the meaning of life in the streets of New York, slums of Peru and forests of Ghana…and they find it.
Ingredients: The Local Food Movement Takes Root
Documentary about how the local food movement is thriving as our world becomes a more flavorless, disconnected and dangerous place to eat.
Colony:
Beautiful documentary on the mystery of bee colony collapse disorder and how it endangers agriculture.
Fair Game:
Thriller based on the true story of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed by a politically motivated press leak. Naomi Watts, Sean Penn
Punching the Clown:
Misadventures & misunderstandings of a comic folk singer in LA. A Slamdance Audience Award winner!
I Love you Philip Morris:
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life.
Waste Land:
Transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit is explored in this documentary about the top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz as he visits the world’s largest landfill in Rio De Janeiro.
Tron:
A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Tron: Legacy
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid.
Casino Jack: Kevin Spacey.
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Little Fockers:
Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the “male nurse”, Greg Focker have what it takes?
Violin:
Mexican director Francisco Vargas’ sensitive film about a rural insurgency. Actor Ángel Tavira won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his performance.
The Trap:
This modern film noir has a man struggling with a moral dilmma in the existential desert of post-Milosevic Serbia.
Sherlock: S1 BBC
In this modernized version of the Conan Doyle characters, using his detective plots, Sherlock Holmes lives in early 21st century London and acts more cocky towards Scotland Yard’s detective inspector Lestrade because he’s actually less confident.
Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.
White Material: Criterion.
Claire Denis’ gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism. Features a ferocious performance from the always amazing Isabelle Huppert.
And from the archives to your DVD player: Cool Runnings, Flashdance, Cross My Heart, Fierce Creatures, Opportunity Knocks, Splitting Heirs, Perfect Man, Head Over Heals, Wimbledon, Story of Us, Nurse Betty, Your Friends and Neighbors, Very Bad Things and Bad Girls.
Ciao for now,
The Thomas Staff
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