the assistant ( 2015 film )
first assistant director: second unit - mexico / key second assistant director: second unit (as terence p. madden )
the family of former joel silver assistant carmel musgrove has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hollywood producer, his silver pictures and his personal chef surrounding musgrove’s death in august 2015 .
seth abramson is series editor for best american experimental writing and an assistant professor of english at university of new hampshire. his most recent book is metamericana (blazevox, 2015) .
reviewed at pathe screening room, paris, aug. 28, 2015. (in venice film festival — competing; toronto film festival — discovery .) running time: 100 min. (original title: “l’attesa” )
olive has a new a. i assistant, but it' s not exactly what she ordered .
a second - unit assistant director has suffered multiple fractures after being injured on the austrian set of the new james bond movie, according to the hollywood reporter .
a magazine editor' s life and career simultaneously begin to unravel after she takes on a new assistant with secret motives of his own .
as a film about a woman embarking on the path of self - discovery, caught between marketing and the media, the film works. as a tale on political one - upmanship, it doesn' t .
jones’s parents told reporters they hoped the jail sentence would encourage hollywood to improve safety on film sets .
not exactly an advertisement for keeping senior citizens on the job, the assistant (la volante) imagines what happens when an over - the - hill secretary carries out a murderous revenge scheme on the young executive she’s been assigned to work for .
when bullock does an about - face to do the right thing at the film' s conclusion, it packs no punch .
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tech credits are skillfully assembled, especially colorful widescreen lensing from dp nicolas massart (paris or perish) that looks better than your typical gallic potboiler. a suspenseful score from jerome lemonnier (the page turner) takes plenty of notes from hitchcock, as does much else in the film, although there’s a reason why one is a master and the other, just an assistant .
miller, who will also perform 360 hours of community service as part of his sentence, is expected to serve around a year of jail time. he will be banned from all film - making activities that include responsibility for the safety of film - set employees for the next 10 years .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
suggests that we’re watched not only in grocery stores, at work, and on the street, but also at home. indeed, the film is at its best when it shows exactly how permeable the home is .
much of what the film considers fodder for satire is too familiar to feel revelatory or shocking, while characters that start out believable behave in unrecognizably ludicrous ways simply because the script forces them to .
in order to pay her college tuition, a young woman turns to the adult film industry and must balance her personal life with a new life as porn star belle knox .
released in some european countries as a dvd / vod feature, with all seven episodes edited together to a 120 minute film. the same in spanish - speaking latinamerican countries .
13 cameras is a creepy horror film that invokes a very real threat: surveillance—the fear we are being watched without our knowledge. it happens more often than we might think .
midnight rider director randall miller has become the first film - maker to be jailed for an on - set fatality in the us after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter after the death of camera operator sarah jones in february last year .
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the midnight rider movie itself is now unlikely to ever be completed. allman, lead singer in the allman brothers band, sued miller last year in an effort to prevent the director from reviving the film. the pair later made an out - of - court settlement, the terms of which were not disclosed .
us actress carrie fisher (r) poses with a storm trooper as she attends the opening of the european premiere of' star wars: the force awakens' in central london on december 16, 2015. ever since 1977, when' star wars' introduced the world to the force, jedi knights, darth vader, wookiees and clever droids r2 - d2 and c3po, the sci - fi saga has built a devoted global fan base that spans the generations. afp photo / leon neal / afp / leon neal (photo credit should read leon neal / afp / getty images )
the characters, in short, act rather unbelievably, and the women in particular seem almost completely unable to help themselves. there have been some great films in the home invasion sub - genre of late that develop full (and fully capable) female characters: you’re next (adam wingard, 2011), intruders (adam schindler, 2015), hush (mike flanagan, 2016), to name three. particularly in the aftermath of those films, i have little patience with a return to the helpless and idiotic female stereotype .
dough rises to the occasion with sweetness, depth and delightful humor. with jonathan pryce and jerome holder giving us textured and nuanced portrayals of growing trust, and appreciation, they also demonstrate how we can successfully meet
the other
with care and compassion. dough provides us will all the ingredients as to how the simple act of being human transforms every bite we take from this morsel of life we get. while the film' s premise offers many
highlights
the cohesive quality of the film, the honest feelings generated and the love that emerges, is not only touching, it' s enlivening. this film is far more than an ethnic sampling, it' s most importantly how we can move beyond our prejudice and bias and find our humanity. john goldschmidt' s direction continually points us toward the goodness of who we are, and pryce and holder masterfully deliver the goods. this was a wonderful and uplifting film, like eating a piece of chocolate chip rugelach without any of the guilt .
miller also told the court in savannah, georgia, that he had not obtained written permission from railway operator csx because it was not his job to do so. but he said the production did have permission to use the land from its owner, paper products firm rayonier. csx later said that it had twice denied the film - makers permission to use the line .
at the beginning of the film, ayyash asks his friends why he' d be walking around with no pants on. in the uk ,
pants
refers to what americans call
underwear .
while many americanisms and word meanings have traveled to the uk ,
pants
has not yet changed meaning to refer to trousers .
the film’s promise dissipates to some degree, then, as the creepy premise of surveillance—the intruder wandering at will in our most private spaces and moments—gives way to a focus on rather unlikeable and clichéd characters doing dumb things. the landlord, gerald, however, is neither insipid nor stupid—and viewers might certainly take pleasure in what becomes of him .
“we hope the sacrifice of our daughter’s life will continue to change the film industry, ’ jones’s father, richard jones, told reporters outside the courthouse. “i believe it sends a message, frankly, that if you do not respect those you’re in charge of, you may end up behind bars. ”
the film centers on married couple claire (brianne moncrief) and ryan (p. j. mccabe), who have moved to accommodate ryan’s job, and who are renting a house. claire is pregnant and “nesting” while her husband goes to work every day. at first glance, their marriage seems somehow foreign (in the early twenty - first century), a throwback to the breadwinning - male / domestic - female 1950s norm—the proverbial haven in a heartless world. but, in actuality, the film soon makes clear that this is unequivocally the post - millennial surveillance society. other people are always present .
warning: major spoilers for star wars: the force awakens ahead. i loved the film. seriously, i did. and yet it also has more plot holes than any film i' ve ever seen, which makes the reviews it' s getting pretty irksome. why can' t we just admit that bb - 8 is adorable, finn is hilarious, rey is badass, seeing han and chewie again was awesome, the special effects were tremendous, poe is soloesque, kylo ren is intriguing, and this movie makes absolutely no sense whatsoever ?
the landlord becomes much more than a lascivious spectator toward the end of the film, which leads to one of my major complaints: three healthy young people in their late twenties, it seems, are no match for an elderly man who clearly has trouble walking for much of the film. at one point, moreover, one of those late - twenty - somethings seems utterly unable to dial 911 given what must have been a good five - minute opportunity to do so (and that was after we were forced to accept the premise that a house in a suburban neighborhood somehow only gets cell service outside, by the pool) .
marie - france is all smiles at first, though there are early signs she’s totally off her rocker. but even if thomas is a bit put off by his assistant’s passive - aggressive attitude, he’s willing to work with her. (as a rule, french secretaries tend to be bossier than their bosses .) on the other hand, the fact that he doesn’t recognize marie - france as the dead boy’s mother requires a major suspension of disbelief – as do several other aspects of ali’s well - paced if somewhat ludicrous original screenplay .
as the film goes on, though, it does lose some of its power. the scorned - mistress plot develops as you would expect, albeit in such a lackluster fashion that i found myself longing for glenn close and the lofty strains of madame butterfly. other - woman hannah (sarah baldwin) never really seems much of a threat .
entertaining and provocative, our brand is crisis is a satirical political drama. the story follows a political strategist who' s recruited to help the campaign of a bolivian presidential candidate, and decides that in order to win they' ll have to convince the people that the country is in a crisis. featuring sandra bullock, joaquim de almeida, billy bob thornton, and zoe kazan, the film has an impressive cast. and, the writing does a pretty good job at avoiding specific issues, focusing instead on political campaigning in general. however, the plot takes a strange turn at the end, suddenly becoming serious and moralistic. it' s a little unfocused and has some storytelling issues, but our brand is crisis is still an interesting and enjoyable film .
below are 40 plot holes in the force awakens. a few are trifling, but most are pretty damning. all of them were entirely unnecessary - - given the amount of time put into this film, the number of people who worked on it, and the amount of money everyone involved in it knew it stood to make - - and in this respect can be deemed unforgivable .
in no small way, “the wait” serves as an exploration of faith. deliberately ambiguous, the film ends without ever having given a clear answer on what happened to giuseppe. messina even goes so far as to cast an actor, giovanni anzaldo, in the role for a few scenes that we can reasonably assume take place exclusively in anna’s head .
37. if basically everyone in the galaxy knows the force is not a myth - - for instance, every single stormtrooper in the first order, who has seen kylo ren use it or heard tell of him using it; every single person in the resistance, who knows the resistance is looking for luke skywalker; every single person in the republic, which was first established in part by the heroism of the jedis - - how is the existence of the force a total shock to rey? jakku is sheltered, but as we know from the film (cf. lor san tekka) there are many people on jakku who either have seen the force first - hand or heard first - hand accounts of it from visitors to the planet .
this a super - sorkiny aaron sorkin script—full of the kind of well - timed zingers and clever turns of phrase that never occur to us in real life. rogen gets the best line of all toward the end, one he levels at jobs in a crowded auditorium before the 1998 imac launch: “ you can be decent and gifted at the same time. it’s not binary. ” with self - conscious beauty and piercing insight, it’s a notion that defines the entire film .
enter the dorm scene' s pseudo - managers - - the resident advisors .
not least, claire and ryan’s landlord, gerald (brilliantly played by neville archambault), is not only watching them in virtually every room of their house—even in the shower, even from the depths of their toilet bowl —but he lets himself into the house with regularity whenever they’re gone, becoming, with his daily treat of illicit bacon burgers, their dog’s best friend. it turns out, moreover, that ryan is having an affair. his lover (who is also his assistant) also ends up penetrating their home (coming between claire and ryan) well before she actually walks in the door. (apparently she has a key too. )
apart from the image of jesus hanging from the cross — which, incidentally, is the first thing we see in italian director piero messina ’s “ the wait ” — perhaps the most instantly recognizable scene in all christian art is the pietae, or the lamentation of christ, in which the virgin mary cradles her lifeless son in her arms. while not a religious film per se, messina’s profoundly dolorous debut — the sort that suits festivals just fine, but makes for depressing arthouse fare — could easily be seen as the visually gifted director’s reinterpretation of this iconic moment, casting juliette binoche (since “blue, ” cinema’s most gifted griever) as a mother awaiting the return (or resurrection ?) of her absent son .
danny boyle ’s thrilling film, which takes place behind the scenes at three key product launches during the late jobs’ career, begins with the apple co - founder freaking out minutes before introducing the macintosh in 1984 because his team couldn’t get it to say “hello. ” it was nitpicky and obsessive—qualities he was famous for—but he was also onto something, as we now know: this idea of technology serving as a constant and comforting companion .
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11. kylo ren is the head of the knights of ren, but there are no other knights of ren in the movie .
which isn’t to say the film lacks humor, and the lead performance can be playfully tongue - in - cheek until it flies off the rails – along with everything else – during a head - scratching, head - bludgeoning finale. french box office could nonetheless be uplifted by baye’s local appeal, especially among older crowds, while hollywood might want to remake this as an aarp - friendly take on reservation road .
the nevada department of education, assisted by the united states department of agriculture implement the universal program for every student, regardless of need .
director / producer john goldschmidt' s productions have won and been nominated for many awards including: british academy award (bafta), silver bear - berlin film festival, prix italia award - rai prize - music, golden nymph - monte carlo, silver nymph - monte carlo (twice), cine de luca award - monte carlo, fernsehpreis der oesterreichischen volksbildung, german cinema owner' s prize, silver hugo - chicago film festival, royal television society award, international emmy award - nomination, prix italia award - nomination for drama, cable ace award (us) - nomination .
16. by the end of the movie, the impression is left that every single first order soldier is dead besides supreme leader snoke, general hux, and kylo ren. that probably won' t turn out to be the case, but the fact that we' re given this impression makes the climactic discovery of luke on an isolated island entirely irrelevant. after all, what need does the resistance have of luke now? why should anyone care, at this point, if he' s found? because there are two bad dudes left in the entire galaxy, one of whom only shows up anywhere as a hologram? and okay, let' s say, for the sake of argument, that there are millions more first order soldiers elsewhere in the galaxy; isn' t it strange that the film gives absolutely no indication whatsoever that this is the case ?
8. it' s okay that poe survived a tie fighter crash; after all, so did finn. but has any film ever cared less about (a) giving the false impression a character has died, and then (b) having that character show up later with no one being surprised by it? even finn doesn' t seem to care very much what the explanation is .
a mother protects her stepdaughter after the teenager witnesses the murder of her best friend, but is soon forced to come to grips with the terrifying possibility that her stepdaughter may be the real killer .
miller, who also admitted criminal trespass, yesterday accepted a plea deal which saw him sentenced to two years behind bars plus eight years of probation and a $ 20, 000 (£13, 250) fine, according to deadline. jody savin, miller’s wife and collaborator, walked free from the court in wayne county, georgia, under the terms of the deal, despite having faced near - identical charges over the death of jones, 27. both film - makers had initially pleaded not guilty .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
39. why would the first order spend untold quadrillions of [ insert unit of money here ] to build the starkiller base, when a similar concept and design plan had twice before been destroyed with minimal difficulty by the rebels? and doesn' t the recurrence of this tactical error for the third time in the (relatively) brief history of the empire / first order suggest that everyone in the first order who was involved in the construction of starkiller base, at every level of management and authority, should be instantly shot in the head? (of course, it' s too late for that by the end of the film, but still .) how positively brain - dead is snoke to have learned literally nothing from history? and for those who say that clearly a solar - powered death star is way better than a non - solar - powered death star, well, clearly not !
despite the earnest efforts put in by the oscar - winning leads, our brand is crisis doesn' t give you enough to make you want to care for the characters, let alone the story .
craig’s fourth outing as the british spy opens in the uk on 23 october and worldwide two weeks later .
after a fire breaks out in the dorm, olivia and her team are put on trial by the administration .
10. for that matter, why is it made to seem like the entire republic is centered in just one star system? let alone one whose planets and moons are all visible to one another with the naked eye? isn' t the republic intergalactic? and why did the first order choose to destroy all the planets and moons visible from maz kanata' s home - world, but then initiate a conventional invasion of the latter planet? why not just fire one more planet - killing beam and destroy kanata' s planet too? because not doing that leads to a significant military defeat for the first order that was totally avoidable. and another thing: if the republic is in power, why is the resistance the
resistance
? what are they resisting? isn' t the first order the
resistance ,
as they' re resisting the hegemony of the republic? it' s like someone on - set said
the rebels need a new name ,
without realizing that the political situation in the galaxy had totally changed since the events of the previous films .
through it all is kate winslet as joanna hoffman, jobs’ calm yet forceful right - hand woman and a much - needed voice of reason. winslet gets a couple of great speeches, which she delivers with convincing power, totally unsurprisingly. her exchanges with fassbender are the film’s high points and almost a high - wire act; it’s a tricky thing making such dense dialogue sound effortless, but both actors pull it off .
in the 3rd act, the funeral for sam newman is a fairhill, where none of the mourners or the staff are wearing kippot, a must for a jewish funeral. and since a jewish funeral would never be held on shabbat (sabbath), fiona shouldn' t be referring to the post - service meal as a
shiva
, which is the first seven days of the jewish mourning ritual .
a woman who was raped by a netcar driver takes a job with the company to exact her revenge on her attacker after she becomes frustrated with the slow pace of the criminal justice system .
but the cameras here aren’t capturing other - wordly entities but very worldly ones. in fact, in some ways, 13 cameras is more terrifying (and certainly more disgusting) than the paranormal films. early on in the film, as the landlord wanders round claire and ryan’s house as if he owned it (which, actually he does! the horrors of home rental !), i actually found myself thinking i would prefer a demon occupying my house to a very seedy and apparently very ill - smelling man licking my toothbrush and rubbing it loving around the inside of his mouth. when claire goes to brush her teeth later that night, she can’t use it because it smells so bad—a truly stomach - churning sequence of events! at that moment, toby didn’t seem so bad .
1. to blow up the 120 - km
death star
in star wars, the rebels needed detailed plans for the base and a full - scale invasion force - - as well as the supernatural targeting skills of the most powerful force - user in the galaxy. to destroy the exponentially larger and better - protected
starkiller base
in the force awakens, all that was needed was a janitor with no special skills, a few run - of - the - mill handheld explosives, a couple not very difficult x - wing blaster strikes, and some moxie. it also helped that the millennium falcon was able to
fly low .
as he is driving his wife to the maternity ward, thomas runs over and kills a young man on the road. marie - france, the mother, will not get over the mourning of her lost son. nine years... see full summary »
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a hard - living, sexually unapologetic woman who plays with the law, and whose life on the edge is constantly in balance as she also happens to be a judge in the criminal court system .
benefiting enormously from its evocative sicilian setting, this widescreen experience makes bewitching use of space, time and sound, creating an almost meditative atmosphere in which patient - minded auds might respond to its themes. some scenes feel somewhat disembodied, such as jeanne’s arrival via a winding volcanic road, set either to the xx’s “missing” (a recurring theme song) or equivalently melancholy electronic tracks. others, such as the one in which anna first re - enters her son’s room or jeanne sits before an enormous stained - glass window, privilege the actors’ mental state, taking place in haunting near - silence, like something out of an eerie ghost story — which the film also happens to be .
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the energy is relentless and the actors all more than meet the challenge of not only keeping up with sorkin’s trademark, rat - a - tat patter but also making it sing. but because the movie takes place almost entirely within interiors, the non - stop walking - and - talking—back and forth through hallways, up and down stairways and in and out of doorways—almost plays like a parody of sorkin’s style, the kind of thing we saw when “the west wing” was at its peak .
the sölden shoot featured last week in the first official shots and footage of spectre to be released. craig was shown firing a pistol in a short video, with seydoux wrapped in regulation bond girl furs and a number of snowmobiles also seen on set. associate producer gregg wilson promised that austria would be the site of “one of the major action sequences of the movie, a jewel in the crown so to speak” .
thanks to boyle’s typically kinetic direction, “steve jobs” is certainly never boring. it rarely takes a breath and is crammed with high - tech jargon, but it never feels bogged down. corridors come to life with imagery. moments from the past crosscut seamlessly and inform the present, often with overlapping dialogue. and the glare of the lights and thunder of the crowds can be so all encompassing, they make you feel like you were there, too: on the precipice of the future .
the case is the most high - profile of its kind to hit hollywood since 1982, when american werewolf in london director john landis and four associates were charged with involuntary manslaughter over the death of actor vic morrow and two child actors following a helicopter crash on the set of television series the twilight zone. landis and his co - workers faced trial in 1986 and 1987, but were acquitted on all charges. however, the families of the deceased are believed to have collected millions of dollars in civil lawsuits .
the 28 - year - old musgrove was found drowned in bora bora by local authorities on the beach near the four seasons hotel where she was vacationing with silver, his family and employees. musgrove’s friends had started searching for her after attempts to reach her the night before were unsuccessful. she was found in the early morning hours in a lagoon near her hotel room .
projects like this, which take place almost entirely in one location (anna’s villa), are often criticized for being overly theatrical, and coincidentally enough, messina was partly inspired by the play “the life i gave you” by luigi pirandello (the nobel winner who wrote “six characters in search of an author”), in which a mother refuses to accept her son’s death. still, although “the wait” focuses on the psychological dance between giuseppe’s mother and lover, the director has approached the potentially stagy material in almost strictly cinematic terms .
miller and his team were aware that the rail track was in use, but the director said during a related civil case in may 2014 that he had been told only two trains came through a day. in fact, the line is one of the busiest freight routes in wayne county. crew members had been told they would have 60 seconds to get off the track if a train did come through, but that proved not to be the case .
a murder in suburban california complicates the lives of three couples and their families .
the fact that he doesn’t try to redeem these flawed, fascinating figures—or even try to make you like them in the slightest way—feels like an innovation in itself .
terry madden, a 007 series regular who has worked on every daniel craig bond movie since 2006’s casino royale, was hurt when a camera truck veered off a road and crashed into a barn during a shoot in the alpine ski resort of sölden. the accident is the second to hit production of spectre, the 24th bond movie, following craig’s knee injury during a fight scene at pinewood studios in london last week. the latter incident reportedly caused a brief suspension of production, but the british actor was expected to be back on set by the weekend just gone .
he insisted on micromanaging the tiniest details of his presentations—making sure the console was a perfect black cube, down to the millimeter, at the 1988 launch of his failed company, next, or cajoling underlings to ignore fire code by shutting off the exit signs in the theater in hopes of achieving a dramatic darkness for his unveilings. but he couldn’t control who was going to come at him in the moments before he took the stage, or what they would say, or what they would want, or how they would dare to invade his formidable brain to wreak havoc when all he wanted to do was maintain his carefully crafted façade of zen cool .
it claims those acts “caused, or contributed to the cause of carmel’s death. ”
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a tribute to the late tab hunter, a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
resident advisors is an outrageous comedy set in the most hormonally - overloaded, sexually active, out - of - control workplace in the world: a college dorm. the show follows a group of resident assistants as they navigate sex, drugs, and midterms .
all of which makes the fact that he was so coldly dismissive to the real - life people closest to him—the people who actually loved him—such a fascinating contradiction, one of many that boyle, writer aaron sorkin and star michael fassbender explore with great ambition and élan .
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a family band, living on a bus, tries to be the great american family .
it’s also easy to compare sorkin’s portrayal of jobs in “steve jobs” to his portrayal of mark zuckerberg in “ the social network, ” which earned him the adapted - screenplay oscar in 2011. both men are visionary geniuses who revolutionized the way people connect with each other, even though they are more than a little socially challenged when it comes to the people in their own lives. the irony may be too rich, but it’s delicious—even though the men in question can be so vicious that their actions leave a bad taste in your mouth .
an interview with terry gilliam, director of
the man who killed don quixote .
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after the untimely death of her grandmother, an estranged young woman returns to their home to slowly discover the friendly, handsome man caring for her grandfather isn' t what he seems to be .
our brand is crisis hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but it' s still one of the liveliest political black comedies i' ve seen in a while .
3. kylo ren, a powerful force - user, fights a light saber duel with an ex - janitor who has never held a light saber and yet (a) never uses the force on his opponent, though doing so would have ended the duel immediately, and (b) barely wins the fight, suggesting that he is simultaneously one of the least strategic wielders of the force the dark side has ever seen and, despite his training, absolutely terrible with a light saber. none of this stops kylo ren from designing and building his own, completely impractical cross - barred lightsaber .
4. rey becomes nearly as effective a force - user in a few hours as luke skywalker did in a few years. 5. just minutes before starkiller base explodes, supreme leader snoke tells hux to go get kylo ren and take him off the planet. unfortunately, ren had recently (unbeknownst to hux) run into the woods like a lunatic, leaving no information about his whereabouts. it' s no problem, though, because hux apparently has special kylo ren gps and (one assumes) goes right to the spot in the middle of the forest where ren is bleeding to death; otherwise, ren would have died on the planet along with everybody else from the first order .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you director boots riley discuss the stress of filming sex scenes .
the movie is funny enough to get its share of laughs but, in its angry heart, it' s a tragedy - and the saddest part is that too much of this story is true .
23. why do rey and finn just stand by watching as ren murders han? they didn' t know ren was han' s son, so the drama on the catwalk must have looked absolutely bizarre to them. why didn' t they think to fire even a single blaster shot down at ren (given that he was just standing there on the catwalk) until - - from their vantage - point, with the knowledge they had at the time, entirely predictably - - ren killed han ?
14. finn is an ex - janitor who goes awol from a stormtrooper force numbering in the tens of thousands. yet he is absolutely convinced, despite being someone of no importance whatsoever to the first order, that he will be chased across the galaxy for having defected. apparently, there' s a premium on janitors in this quadrant of the galaxy. sure, finn killed some people during his escape, but doesn' t the first order emphasize with every tactical decision it makes that it considers its soldiers thoroughly expendable, and don' t they quite obviously have much bigger fish to fry during the events of the force awakens than to worry about finn? why wouldn' t this be obvious to him ?
as he is driving his wife to the maternity ward, thomas runs over and kills a young man on the road. marie - france, the mother, will not get over the mourning of her lost son. nine years have passed. marie - france has become thomas' secretary and dangerously starts to interfere into his life, with one idea in mind: to get closer to his son ...
in its vision of a home that is far from a safe and impermeable haven, 13 cameras not only suggests the home invasion horror sub - genre but also supernatural films like the paranormal activity franchise. indeed, repeated shots of ryan and claire’s pool with what looks like some sort of cleaning device seem explicitly to reference paranormal activity 2, with its numerous security cameras positioned around the house, including one overlooking the pool .
2. the wily han solo loses track of his most prized possession, the millennium falcon, for more than a dozen years. he has no idea where it is - - in the entire galaxy. when you lose something in your house, that' s bad; when you lose something on your planet, you kiss it goodbye but pray for a miracle; when you lose something in the entire galaxy, you just get on with your life. and yet, less than a minute after rey begins piloting the millennium falcon, han looks out the window of his freighter and says ,
oh, there it is .
production on midnight rider, a biopic of southern rocker gregg allman, was shut down in the wake of the accident on an active railroad trestle bridge high over the altamaha river in wayne county, georgia. jones died when a train hit a metal frame bed that had been placed on the track as part of a dream sequence featuring william hurt as allman on the first day of filming. hurt and miller were among cast and crew members who escaped unharmed, but jones was knocked beneath the vehicle. her death has galvanised safety campaigners in hollywood, with a number of initiatives since introduced to improve conditions and encourage whistleblowers to report rogue operators .
6. the reason ren was slowly bleeding to death - - instead of being dead by rey' s hand - - is that a massive a chasm had just miraculously opened up in the several feet between the two of them. such bad timing for rey! (damn you, deus - ex - geology! )
he later told the los angeles times: “we were never seeking revenge. we were always seeking accountability. ”
a crosscutting opening shows earnest urban planner, thomas (malik zidi), racing to the hospital with his girlfriend (sabrina seyvecou), who’s about to give birth. on the way, their car hits a young man, killing him on the spot and leaving his mother, marie - france (baye), a grieving mess .
15. let' s be clear: han' s son joins the first order, and luke' s attempts to train new jedis goes horribly wrong, and both men respond to these setbacks by, well, abandoning the resistance to be utterly slaughtered by the first order. luke chills on an island, and han on a smuggler' s freighter, while untold thousands or millions of innocents are killed by the order. can we even comprehend how pissed leia would be at both of them, and how cowardly leia (at least the leia we see in the first three films) would consider them both? and yet she seems only mildly peeved at luke, and, despite han implying otherwise, is almost entirely happy to see him when he turns up at the resistance stronghold .
having said that, if you don’t know a whole lot about steve jobs going into “steve jobs, ” “steve jobs” isn’t about to go out of its way to help you. if you don’t know about the garage in los altos, ca where it all began, or his lengthy and tangled friendship with wozniak, the potential for exploring the complexities of jobs’ personality might be lost on you. an excellent companion piece would be alex gibney ’s recent documentary, “ steve jobs: the man in the machine, ” which covers much of the same ground, but more thoroughly. (you’re welcome to ignore the 2013 biopic “ jobs ” starring ashton kutcher, if you haven’t already. but it is rather telling that jobs’ life has inspired three separate features in just a couple of years. )
eventually, marie - france manages to make friends with thomas’s son, leo (jean - stan du pac), as well as with his widowed father, eric (johan leysen). soon enough, the latter falls in love with the icy and seductive woman, who offers him another stab at love during his golden years – “stab” being the key word here, since it doesn’t take marie - france long to try and take out the entire family .
i was excited to see the appearance of this show on hulu. i immediately thought of shows like undeclared and the national lampoon' s college movies. i watched all of it within a couple of days and it got a bit better with time. at first i didn' t think it was all that funny and there were only a few laugh out loud moments. but i like the main cast, including the newcomers enough to hope for a second season. the writing wasn' t very original but it still kept my attention. 7 episodes seemed like enough and if you watch all of them the back story from previous episodes pays off in the final episode. to micah the one star reviewer: it sounds like you were expecting a documentary from a fictional comedy show. i got quite a laugh and felt a bit bad at the same time. seeing that you watch a comedy series about resident advisors and expect it to be strictly by the book made me wonder what else you may have given poor reviews based on lack of authenticity. of course they weren' t writing this with a true story in mind. it wouldn' t have been funny in the slightest. at first i thought you were joking until i continued reading. do all fictional comedies enrage you? especially the ones about college? i sure hope not because that seems really sad .
it' s the first time i' ve watched a david gordon green movie and found myself wishing i was in the capable hands of a set -' em - up - knock -' em - down director like jay roach .
one of the breakout stars of melanie laurent’s “breathe, ” de laage hasn’t mastered binoche’s incredible gift for minimalism — that unique ability to convey virtually any emotion (in this case, profound suffering) through something so simple as a far - off stare or subtle twitch of the cheek. still, de laage’s more outwardly physical acting technique is hardly a liability, as the enigmatic - looking young thesp (who belongs more to the lea seydoux school of naturally pouty beauties) brings something different to the dynamic, which, after all, hinges on how these two very different women react to giuseppe’s absence .
the suit alleges that silver’s chef martin herold provided musgrove with cocaine, and “the silver defendants, themselves or through their agents, committed wrongful acts by furnishing carmel with excessive amounts of alcohol, furnishing her with cocaine, creating excessive fatigue by requiring performance of work functions during the silver’s [ sic ] family vacation” which included her suffering heat stroke during a fishing trip .
sandra bullock stars in this political comedy drama from warner bros. and director david gordon green, and inspired by the 2005 documentary of the same name, an expose of a bungled american election campaign in south america. ~ jason buchanan, rovi
licence to seriously injure … daniel craig on the spectre set. photograph: metro - goldwyn - mayer studios inc. / pa
on the surface a lighthearted, even sitcom styled, look at political campaigning. but that most of the levity is based on truth adds a sad insight into our world at large that makes for unusually important filmmaking. the effort tries to bravely smile at that unbearable sadness but cannot. like cassandra of old here is truth that no one will listen to. bullock and thornton play two sides of the same coin well enough to lean this nearly into a romance, but what a sick romance it is .
sorkin’s script is bold in choosing these pivotal moments in jobs’ career and structuring them as a three - act play. certainly it’s far preferable to the standard, superficial, cradle - to - the - grave biopic that tries to encompass too much. it’s easy to imagine “steve jobs” as a stage production, actually, for its theatrical talkiness and the minimalism of its set design .
so yes, steve jobs has changed my life just as he’s changed many millions of others’ on the planet. the devices he devised do what he hoped they would do: they make our lives easier. they are aesthetically appealing. they are our friends .
released to middling reviews in france, this second feature from the team behind 2005' s camping sauvage is a more polished and watchable effort, even if it will inadvertently draw laughs from its more preposterous setups – such as the numerous times the evil old lady spikes other people’s drinks, doing them in as they sip cups of herbal tea, shots of nespresso or a finely aged cote du rhone .
on the surface, alex and pete could not be more different. the recently divorced alex is a hard - working, high - strung lawyer who is raising her 10 - year - old daughter, charlie, as a single mom... see full summary »
though “the wait” is essentially a two - hander, other minor characters appear, most notably a longtime family servant (giorgio colangeli) who dutifully keeps his mouth shut, but can hardly bear to see jeanne suffer. though he never explains the situation outright, his facial expressions give audiences all the indication they need to interpret what’s really going on — though messina is almost maddeningly vague at times. just how dense is jeanne, after all, that she doesn’t pick up on the clues? or might she be ignoring them on purpose ?
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after a one - night stand with her coach, a pressured swimming phenom finds the lives of herself and her loved ones in danger .
an old jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young muslim apprentice drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high .
and so they wait. jeanne, who has flown from paris to sicily because giuseppe asked, allows her guilt to get the better of her, choosing to imagine that her lover is avoiding her, which could have something to do with an unspecified disagreement the previous summer (likely infidelity). anna plays along. pretending as if she’s in contact with giuseppe, she tells jeanne that he’s promised to return in time for easter — which supplies not only a vibrant sicilian parade, but also a significant christian symbol, being the day of the son’s resurrection.
the assistant ( original title : la volante ) is a 2015 drama-thriller film directed by christophe ali and nicolas bonilauri and starring nathalie baye and malik zidi . 
the assistant (original title: la volante) is a 2015 drama-thriller film directed by christophe ali and nicolas bonilauri and starring nathalie baye and malik zidi.
the assistant (original title: la volante) is a 2015 drama-thriller film directed by christophe ali and nicolas bonilauri and starring nathalie baye and malik zidi.