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20 years of experience as a film editor, Digital compositor and VFX lover. Knowledge most all phases of the production of both commercials and film, genres: storytelling, fashion, comedy, PSA, music videos, and pharmaceutical.
Professional Experience:
• Video Editor HAVAS HEALTH, NY
• Condé Nast Digital/Lucky Magazine: 100 Perfect Outfits GFX, Almay, Canon, Olay, Bulova, White House Black Market
• Shoot the Saxophone Player roto/paint artist
• Bluebird feature film - Roto artist
• Cicada Princess shortfilm - roto/paint artist
• Global Works: Web campaign Hughes.net spots "Great Ideas" and "Puzzle"
• Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group web spots
• The Wild Magazine: Edited fashion video for Dec 2011 issue.
• Double Wide Media: Edited corporate videos for clients, DDB/Bydureon
• The Vidal Partnership: Edited video commercials, promotional videos and business pitch for the brands TD BANK, HEINEKEN, SPRINT, REMMY MARTIN
• ADRENALINA: Edited video commercials, promotional videos and business pitch for the brand TECATE
• Breathe Editing: Edited corporate videos for high profile clients Saatchi & Saatchi/ Byetta. 2009
• Casbah Pictures: Edited major Hispanic campaign for Mayor Bloomberg 2009
• Robert Penn productions Edited corporate videos for high profile clients The DeVos Institute of Arts Management at The Kennedy Center, ARTSEDGE: The Kennedy Center's Arts Education Network and City Lore, Inc.
Bond Edit Avid Editor 2004 to 2009 New York, NY
Top Clients:
McCann Human Care/Salud Ad Council, French Culinary InstituteSpike DDB, AMBI Skin Care
Stand with Magic Johnson, Anonymous Content, Nexium, Astra Zeneca, VERIZON Wireless
DIRECTV, NISSAN, March of Dimes, NYC 2012
Specialties: Avid Media Composer, FCP, Premiere.
Photoshop, After Effects, NUKE, Silhouette EFX Motion GFX, VFX
Color Correction Web encoding DVD authoring
FCP, Adobe Premiere After Effects for multiple pharma products.
FCP, Avid, Adobe Premiere, VFX, GFX color correction
Video editor for multiple clients Condé Nast Digital/Lucky Magazine: 100 Perfect Outfits GFX, Almay, Canon, Olay, Bulova, White House Black Market. Global Works: Web campaign Hughes.net spots "Great Ideas" and "Puzzle".Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group web spots. The Wild Magazine: Edited fashion video for Dec 2011 issue.
Final Cut, After Effects and DVD authoring
FCP and Avid Instructor, Freelance Editor
Commercials, case studies, animatics and business pitch
Hispanic Editorial Work, Color Correction, Recording and Mixing Supervision.
FCP Editorial work, color correction.
FCP editorial work and color correction for Mayor Bloomberg 2009 campaign
Instructor for
FCP, Avid, DVD Studio Pro, After effects
Avid Editing (Media composer, Adrenaline, Nitris)
Beta testing for Avid
File and DVD encoding.
• McCann Human Care/Salud
• Ad Council,
• French Culinary Institute
• Spike DDB
• AMBI Skin Care
• Stand with Magic Johnson
• Anonymous Content
• Nexium
• Astra Zeneca
• VERIZON Wireless
• March of Dimes
• Hershey's
• Hughes Industries
• Home Depot
• Wendy's
• Old Navy
Editor for the Movie Rosa and The Executioner of The Fiend
FCP Editor for the movie Subhysteria, supervision editor for the post production crew.
Colorist for the Documentary "Casi 10"
Editor for Mercedes Hall Show
Writer, Producer and Editor for Promos at Warner Channel
Film Editing, Post Supervision, Film History, GFX Design on Air.
Instructor for Film History, Editing, Media 100 and After Effects
Creative Promos, After Effects, Editing and Supervising Editor
Avid editing on Mac and PC platform. After Effects GFX design and Special effects supervisor, Ultimatte and Filmlook specialist
Avid commercial editor for major clients such as Coca Cola, Shell, Mavesa, Maltin Polar. TV Show "Aqui Entre Nos"
Film editor for the Cinesa Newsreel, cutting documentaries, sales projects and commercials.
Editorial work, audio supervision, sound design.
An early morning in the pacific northwest, a young punk band are parked in the middle of a cornfield tired of a long tour. Pat (Anton Yeltchin), Sam (Alia Poots), Reece (Joe Cole) and Tiger (Callum Turner) are the members of the band "The Ain't Rights" This kids are perfect representation of a true millennials: broke, full of energy, with no future in place and ready to take over the world.
After meeting a radio host Tad he arrange a gig for them, they end up in a bar own by neo-Nazi skinhead. The environment is heavy and the band "The Ain't Rights" feel that, you can sense the hate of the audience, which react aggressively to their first song: Dead Kennedys cover of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off". After their gig Sam forget her cellphone at the Green Room and Pat decided to retrieve it, inside he finds a dead body next to some club regulars. Suddenly Pat grabs the phone trying to call 911, but is stopped by Gabe who manage the bar.
Is time for the club owner to make an appearance and try to do "damage control" Darcy Banker (Patrick Stewart) bring several options to the table in order to clean up this mess, the rest is history…
Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin) brings the perfect thriller, a movie filled with violence and unexpected situations, none is safe in the Green Room, I mean none. It also bring a great political metaphor about the America we are living.
A group of millennial's a punk band bringing messages about them who are trying to survive in a world where the establishment the bar owner and their associates send messages of hate and destruction. The confederate flag, swastikas and the skin head culture are trying to hide their criminal activities drugs and murders. Is clear that Saulnier connects this story with the recent events in "Oregon's Standoff" leads by Anti-Government militias.
One of the strongest message in the film is Pat story about him and his friend fighting a group of Iraq veterans in a paintball tournament, he suggest how is possible for them to win against this highly trained people? We you just have bring everything you got. Is like trying to escape the green room from an army of neo-Nazi skinheads…
The film directing is outstanding, as well the editing, cinematography and sound design.
The set up of an interview reveal a pretentious and stubborn Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) footage of Miles performing in a TV set behind him, the voice of Dave Brill (Ewan McGregor) set the foundation of a not so pleasant interaction. Miles looks tired and annoyed about everything. Specially the way that his music is called: Jazz. It should be called social music. He rectify Dave, and Miles grab his trumpet and before he start playing we cut aggressively to a car chase, we can hear and see the threat, Dave and Miles trying to escape with Miles Davis latest recorded tapes.
"Miles Ahead" tales the story of the famous musician who became famous for his powerful interpretation of the trumpet, becoming one of Columbia Records biggest success next to Bob Dylan. The plot divides two events in Miles Davis life. After so-called retired for five years, due drugs and alcohol, a missing tape sessions is been haunted by so many people in the music industry. Everyone wants something from that. Including reporter from Rolling Stone Dave Brill (McGregor). This part of the story explore Miles volatile behavior as well his addition. Parallel the film explores his trouble relationship with wife Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi) Miles was a ladies man and the film reflects that in a very suggestive way.
Cheadle's directorial debut is giving us a very surreal life of the famous musician, with a fabulous film editing and a well produced score inspired by Miles Davis itself. The film lack of production value is my biggest complain. This is the kind of movie were I really want to see a real NY from 1979' instead of Cincinnati pretending to be NYC. You need that roughness and genuineness of the city of NY to support the aggressiveness and frenzies in style and rhythm of Miles Ahead. That was Miles city and his gasp voice as well his music comes with it.
The film is a great testament of part of his life work, but the conclusion honoring him in is not that powerful, If you not include the final musical act, the film will end flat.
Perhaps Cheadle just deliver the film the way that he wanted, just like Miles Davis did with his music: If you gotta tell a story, come with some attitude
This day and age, modern warfare is manage over the sky. New devices called: Drones deal with the responsibility of observe, provide information for analysis and also attack. The last one is the most questionable, due the amount of crimes made by several countries who launch operations to eliminate certain targets, with the price of killing civilians.
"Eye in the Sky" is the British thriller directed by Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) tales the story of a operation by the UK government to capture a terrorist group (visually similar to Al Qaeda or ISIS) who are hiding in the city of Nairobi, Kenya. The film focus on several locations. A war room in the UK, a government building also in the UK, a military base in Nevada, Singapore, China and of course Nairobi.
Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) leads the operation in the war room, while in the government building we have Lieutenant General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman) the Attorney General and some members of the UK cabinet, in Nevada we have 2nd Lieutenant Steve Watts, a USAF drone pilot (Aaron Paul) and Carrie Gershon USAF (Phoebe Fox).
Something that makes this film a true thriller is the tension created between all the locations involved. In fact the audience will not experience true action after the first hour of film, but the plot and performances are powerful. The plot seems simple, but it gets complicated when every decision needs to be careful reviewed by some members of the government, from the legal ramifications, the political ramifications and even the cost of lives from collateral damages.
This movie satire how a minister or another member of the government could be in the most obscure situation (toilet seat) superficial (playing ping-pong with a Chinese counterpart) and even Lieutenant unable to decide which doll model was requested by his daughter but is able to decide when to shoot a missile. But the real heart of the film is how a child's life is the real element of discussion between the military and the government. The challenges of been responsible of a crime, as price to avoid serious terrorist attacks. The subject is well putt it when 2nd Lieutenant Steve Watts, a USAF drone pilot (Aaron Paul) reject superiors orders when he is aware that a little girl is near the target of the attack and the range of the attack will include her as a casualty.
Eye in the Sky follow the footsteps of films like Dr Stranglelove by showing the vulnerabilities of the governments secret operations, lack of sensitivity loosing innocent lives and the cost of the war of terror for the greater good.
In the mist of the Argentinian dictatorship and Falklands War in 1982 Arquimedes Puccio (Guillermo Francella) patriarch of the family and worker of the state intelligence service, becomes unemployed. During this period he decided to start criminal activities by kidnapping wealthy families. Alejandro Puccio (Peter Lanzani) eldest son and the star player of a rugby club is one of the most important collaborators of the gang, by helping identify the targets, using his fame and popularity as an alibi.
"El Clan" is directed Pablo Trapper and produced in part by the Almodovar brothers. The story of the El Clan start with a very dramatic revelation, the rescue of one of the victims from the Puccio's kidnaps, then moving back to an interesting film structure, a parallel between father and son showing them separated and then reunite by this common mission. Their first victim, Ricardo Monukian friend of Alejandro.
The film explore several aspects of the crimes as well how family values becomes part of the kidnapping process. Arquimedes is a sort of Walter White who needs to commit this crimes to provide for the family. Money to send his kids to New Zealand to play Rugby, help Alejandro to get one of his biggest dreams, a surf store. The family are all accomplices, some more indirect than others. The audience feel their kids suffering when they hear the kidnapping victims crying for help next to their bedrooms while their doing homework, Alejandro's guilt by been responsible of helping to kidnap his wealthy friends. For Arquimedes everything is for the family, he is a true psychopath, nothing can't stop him, except one thing: democracy.
During the fall of Argentina dictatorship and the rise of a democratic government by Raúl Alfonsín who started to cleaning all the government mess, raise the flag over Puccio's family operations, which were protected and covered in part by the past government.
The film "El Clan" is a powerful story that never stop to impress about the happenings of this horrible crimes while the Puccio family continue their daily lives using their ransom money to live a good life in Argentina.
With great performances and great film-making El Clan is one of the best films of 2016 so far.
The film open with a great vista of the jungle in Colombia. The sounds set the scene, helping the audience to immerse themselves into this mysterious journey. The black and white is powerful, but also intrigue us. Seen a jungle like this without appreciate their true colors make you want more. Now the sound surround us as well the language spoken which is one of the multiple indigenous languages.
"Embrace of The Serpent" is a film directed by Ciro Guerra, and tells two parallel stories of German scientist Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American scientist Richard Evans Schultes. Set in 1909 and 1940. Both of them experienced their journey thru the jungle with Karamakate an Amazonian shaman who is the guide in the search for the rare yakuza, a secret plant. In this journey the audience experience the critical evolution of society in the amazon shape their future. You see human interaction with technology as a way of creating new experiences but also a way of affecting traditions and traditional learning process and heritage.
In a scene you see Grunber showing an indigenous tribe how to use a compass, later the compass disappear. This cause a commotion between the leader of the tribe and Gurnber who is upset about this. His point is not about who stole it and why. Is the fact that indigenous tribe use stars to guide themselves thru the jungle, with a compass will loose that ability. Is the effect of using technology as a tool to make your life easier, but also to ruin your traditional learning. This also journey thru the unknown, how religion pretends to shape indigenous by destroying their essence.
"Embrace of The Serpent" is clever because show in two parallel universe the journey of Grunberg in 1909 and Schultes in 1940. The audience experience the progression of time, how society in part ruin the life of this people, by imposing new traditions and knowledge. Forcing them to change their ability to continue developing what they know, how they live, only killing what make them unique.
At the end this journey is experience first hand by one person in both periods of time. Karamakate. He understand how important is his life in the jungle, the respect and consideration of his heritage and how the presence of external characters can destroy it. He also face big challenges living there: Memories, learned traditions which can be lost if you don't share it with future generations. He cannot be corrupt, even Schltes offer him, a single dollar for his help, a true evidence of capitalism.
Ciro Guerra borrow from great films about journeys in the jungle. Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo. Both films show a trip into a jungle filled with challenges in the hunt for one thing. In Apocalypse Now is a mission to eliminate Colonel Walker Kurtz a renegade against the establishment of the US Army. In Fitzcarraldo the search for rubber an element that is destroying indigenous people in Perú, because it's constitute a new source of income, better than the life in the jungle. For "Embrace of The Serpent" the journey shows the power of rubber and how destroy the minds and life of indigenous people till their death.
"Embrace of The Serpent" is a powerful film that can leave you breathless by the power of the message, but also by the connection with Werner Herzog and Francis Copola style of filming and editing.
Stories about finance institution, personalities and crisis always been split in two: Big strong dramas and also documentaries. From Margin Call, Wall Street, The Wolf of Wall Street to Inside Job, Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room and Capitalism: A love Story. Hollywood focus their energy in appealing stories.
Adam McKay directs "The Big Short" a comedy drama about the very beginning of the financial crisis of 2008. Michael Burry (Christian Bale) a hedge fund manager discovers flaws in the housing market and consider that is pretty unstable. After strong analysis he predicts that the market will collapse in the second quarter of 2007. With this idea in mind, he find a way to make profit from this by betting against the housing market. A trader Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) heard about Burry's action from several clients and he decided to get into the same game, investing into the same idea. Mar Baum (Steve Carell) Hedge fund manager get a tip about the same plan.
When you start watching "The Big Short" you can get lost so easily about the financial lingo, but Adam McKay directing approach makes the information so easy to follow by making fun of it. With guest appearances in strange scenarios, they explain several information fun, but also ironic to the viewer. "The Big Short" is masterfully edited by Hank Corwin using skillful techniques to connects with multiple character and situations in a period of 4 years, also the use of archival footage and a well elaborated soundtrack makes the pace of this film, slow sometimes and then hectic in the other.
Christian Bale is fantastic as Michael Burry, Ryan Gosling is fun and hateful as Jared Vennett, Steve Carell is excellent as Mark Baum. But one supporting role that steals the show is Brad Pitt playing Ben Rickert. The Big Short will join the list of well made and outstanding films about finance.
When I first read that the team behind Birdman were intended to do The Revenant, I thought, how they will pitch this project to the studio. If you think of this using Hollywood lingo, I will say that the idea will be Dances With Wolves meets Man vs Wild meet Gladiator. Sounds crazy right?. But in a way is what this film is about: Empowering native Americans, by putting the whites as the bad guys, then having the main character survive a pretty traumatic experience in the wilderness in order to avenge the death of a love one and finally succeed.
Everything sounds pretty cool in paper, but if you have a director like Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu behind, is probably less simple and more elaborated tale. The Revenant is the story of a group of trappers that are hunting in the Louisiana Purchase territory under the command of Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson). Suddenly they been ambush by the Arikara tribe, which cost the lives of part of Captain Henry team. In the group they have a very experience guide Hugh Glass (Leonardo Di Caprio) which is traveling with his son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) half white, half Native America thanks to Glass relationship with a woman from a tribe. The trappers leader is John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) who seems to be antagonist of the whole expedition.
After the group escape from the Arikara ambush, they decided to leave their boat behind and continue by foot in order to escape from the tribe. The trip becomes more complicated when Glass is attached brutally by a grizzly bear, who is trying to protect her cubs. The group decided to carry Glass with them, until Fitzgerald pressure Henry to leave him behind and sacrifice him.
Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu directs this masterful film with a very strong vision, the film was shot chronologically allowing the actors and the team create a powerful story. Emmanuel Lubezki cinematography is beautiful and is so intimate, perhaps because he use natural light most of the time, in order to keep the film uniqueness. Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hardy delivers a great performances which I believe deserve to be rewarded. Ryuichi Nakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner original score is a work of art that blend perfectly in the film visuals.
The Revenant is a stunning film that is not only the tale of sacrifice, journey and struggle, it's also a film that represents rawness of life and beauty and the same time. Life is like that: rough and beautiful. You just have to find a way to live with both.
The beginning of a ritual where two women are involved. A girls transition to a full women? A couple's union? or perhaps the departure of innocence?. This is the first scene that we see in the Guatemala's film submission for the Academy Awards "Ixcanul" directed by Jayro Bustamante
Maria (Maria Mercedes Coroy) is a seventeen year old girl who lives with her parents on the slopes of an active volcano en Guatemala. Maria's dad Manuel (Manuel Antún) works in a coffee plantation with his wife Juana (María Telón). Maria is a curious girl and of course she is interested in boys, among the farmers is Pepe, her love interested and the one who will take her most sacred possession for a girl, her virginity. At the same time Maria's parents have arranged a wedding with Ignacio one of the managers of the plantation, a sort of powerful guy to them. This will assure some future for Manuel, Juana and Maria, the idea of keep their land and a house.
In a chain of events Maria get pregnant of Pepe, who ran away from to the United States, looking for a better life. This situation complicates Juana and Manuel's plan of getting Maria married to Ignacio. They are naive and Ignacio knows how to manipulate them. He is the representation of change, how dirty is society and how can control weak people, using mean tricks, like ignorance.
Ixcanul is spoken in Mayan for most of the film, which makes the movie more mysterious for the audience. In a tradition of films spoken in more friendly languages, the risk pays off. Like Apocalypto or The Passion of Christ spoken in unused languages brings life to the movie and create a sense of more down and dirty experience.
The film explore family values, traditions, Mayan myths and also how modern society is responsible of Indian cultural demise. Ixcanul tales the tale in a cyclical way getting into a full closure helping the audience to see Maria starting as a seventeen year old girl, becoming a woman right thru our eyes, just for the sake of her familiy future.
Every human being encounter a moment of identification, to their profession, surroundings and mostly their sexuality. The independent community, Hollywood and the several countries around the world have challenge the status quo presenting stories about people who are looking for acceptance to their sexuality, personal habits and their expressions. Most of the people with lifelong identification, have challenges on how society see them, but specially understand them.
Films like Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", Kimberly Pierce "Boys Don't Cry", Duncan Tucker "Transamerica", Neil Jordan "The Crying Game", Stephan Elliott "The Adventures Priscilla Queen of The Desert", Almodovar's "Todo Sobre Mi Madre", David Cronenberg "M. Butterfly" and Alain Berliner "Ma Vie en Rose" tells the story of women, men and even kids who are not identified with their sexuality, they are also filled with personal conflicts as human beings. The movies present dramatic situations, comedic situations and sometimes crazy dream sequences to explain the audience what is happening in their minds.
In Tom Hooper "The Danish Girl" he presents a very dramatic tale of Einar Wegner (Eddie Redmayne) a popular landscape painter in the mid 1920's and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) a portrait artist. The couple lives in Copenhagen, enjoying Elinar successful career with the typical marriage, ups and downs and also having challenges trying to sell Gerda's work and their efforts to get pregnant.
Looking for different ideas and ways of express her work differently in order to find representation in different countries, Gerda's ask Elinar to pose for her, wearing female gowns and using silk stockings. Elinar see himself identify with this. In a beautifully shot, edited and performed scene, the audience understand in a few seconds his struggle on wanted to be a woman, but also his excitement and mental transformation. This becomes a epiphany for him. Unaware of this Gerda thinks is a game, so she plays along discovering the shocking truth, right thru her eyes.
The Danish Girl is a powerful film who tries to tell the story of Elinar Wegner in the best way possible. Sometimes going from the dramatic to the brotherliness of been corny. Tom Hooper delivers his well used wide lenses view of several spaces to create a emotional landscape which is very rich thanks to Danny Cohen cinematography, Eve Stewart Production Design and Art Direction by Grant Armstrong and Tom Weaving. The scenes are alive and look like the paintings created Gerda and Elinar. This 3 artistic aspect of the film makes the film very sensitive and specially unique. I hope this four talented people get rewarded. Another aspect of the movie is the beautiful film score by Alexander Desplat.
Eddie Redmayne delivers a powerful role, with a very intense transformation, but sometimes have the nuance of previous performances. Alicia Vikander shows a promising performance that could be improved with other roles. Finally someone who steal the show in their scenes is Gerda and Elinar's dog Jack Rusell Teddy (Pixie)
In the very beginning of time women were consider the weak spot, the runner of the household and the caretaker of our kids. But women were never consider capable of been entrepreneurs, capable of develop ideas or capable to run companies. It took time to get the idea and been able to respect them from what they are and capable to do. First was the vote and their rights and later show that men can be weak too and run a house without them. Movies showed that in the past decades. From "Nine to Five", "A League of Their Own", "All About Eve", "Channeling", "Bend it Like Beckham", "Funny Girl", "Thelma and Louise" "The First Wives Club" and "Erin Brockovich"
In the film Joy directed by David O Russell, he tells the true story of Joy Mangano a divorced woman living with her two kids, father, ex husband, mother and grandmother under one roof. The story is been told from the grandmother point of view played by Diane Ladd and develops in a very strange structure that makes the film complicated to follow. The film start with Joy already divorce living with her family and the arrival of his dad who is been kicked out from his home. The ex husband an aspiring singer from Venezuela played by Edgar Ramirez, Joy's mom Virginia Madsen an obsessed person who loves to spent time in bed watching soap opera, Joy half sister Elisabeth Röhm and overachiever who constantly humiliates Joy in front of her kids and finally Joy's dad played by Robert De Niro who never believed in Joy and her creativity to come up with ideas for inventions. Joy is creative and wants to achieve better quality of life for her kids and their family. Her grandmother supports her, but her parents don't understand her, until she come up with a great invention that will change the market forever.
This foundation was set on the first minutes of the film, finally the movie goes back to Joy childhood, explaining who is she and her family and continues in a chronological order. This starting point of a movie filled with chaos for the audiences, who needs to understand why the characters are there and where they going. Opposite other movies, like Goodfellas who start in the middle in the movie, it justify why they do that and is done with so much style thinking on developing the characters in just a few minutes. Joy starts as a mess and continues as a mess. The film is about Joy - Jennifer Lawrence but is been told from her grandmother point view, which appears on screen soon enough to tell what ever is necessary about her, but you never understand things like dream sequences or several motives of the characters. You laugh in some situations but others you are lost, because you are hoping to see the story of a woman who create this empire and you end up seen a story of a destructive family and the invention a mop.
Don't get me wrong Joy life could be something better, probably like Erin Brockvich, but is not compelling enough to do that. David O Russell waste actors like Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Diane Ladd and Virginia Madsen and weak characters who barely said something meaningful, they are just puppets surrounding Jennifer Lawrence who is the start of the movie, besides her outstanding performance, Joy can be a film easy to forget.
The lights go dark and a red and black screen with the illustration of a stagecoach and the title Overture appears. The music by Ennio Morricone starts and you know that you are witnessing movie history here.
This is the 8th film by Quentin Tarantino. "The Hateful Eight" a film shot in 70mm ultra panavision by the renown cinematographer Robert Richardson and the intention is to create the experience that we lost over digital in the late 60's.
"The Hateful Eight" is divided by six chapters which introduce a very peculiar cast of outlaws who don't have any remorse of kill everyone to achieve their goal. A trip on a stagecoach carrying The Hangman (Kurt Russell) and The Prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) it's been stopped by a unwelcome passenger "The Bounty Hunter" who is carrying a 3 dead bodies who needs to bring into town. Then another unwelcome passenger shows up, but this time of chapter 2, "The Sheriff" (Walton Goggins) who needs to get into town for his assignment, the new sheriff of Red Rock. During the stagecoach ride the story unveils showing every character true colors and real intention of their journey to town, including one of the movies let motive "The Lincoln Letter"
Finally they arrive to Minnie's Haberdashery where they meet with the rest of the characters "The Mexican" (Demián Bichir), "Little Man" (Tim Roth) "The Cow Puncher" (Michael Madsen) "The Confederate" (Bruce Dern) where the story take shape into a major conflict that involves: racism, US north and south, justice and poison.
Tarantino creates a theatrical experience never seen on his films, probably because his movies moves all over the place and tells the stories by so many points of views, which involves several narrators and locations. This time the film explore a single place where the conflict start and ends. The film is bloody like we used with him, violent and satirical. The dialogues are witty, sarcastic and filled with profanity. The story develops in a linear way until a point where Tarantino brings his magic touch.
"The Hateful Eight" is a great film that brings back the essence of westerns with a twist of pop culture.
If you really want to experience this movie in glorious 70mm try to catch up in their special engagement roadshow. Overture, Intermission and a nice program as a souvenir.
Journalism in films is a great subject because the movies explore the process of a investigation, the main characters, ethics and also the power of the system. So many movies have done great work: Michael Man's "The Insider", Alan Pakula's "All the President's Men", George Clooney "Good Night and Good Luck" Ron Howards' "Frost/Nixon" James L Brooks "Broadcast News", Roland Joffé "The Killing Fields are among those films.
In Spotlight directed by Tom McCarthy journalist is questioned on his core. In 2001 The Boston Globe hires a new editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) with the promise of searching for better stories and more solid journalism work. Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton) is the head of "Spotlight" team a group of journalist of the Globe whose articles are investigative nature, but can take up to a year to publish. The film start with an incident of a priest who is be taking a police precinct in Boston for allegedly molesting a kid from the parish in the 70's the case seems to go under the table when the archdioceses gets involved to solve the problem. Tom McCarthy set the foundation of the story by proving that this is lawless crimes that can be hide so easily in front of the police. Back to 2001 Baron reads a small article that talks about a pedophile priest John Geoghan and how the archbishop of Boston knew about it and did nothing to stop it. The spotlight team is been asked to start an investigation about the peophile cases in the church of Boston.
The spotlight team start to work Michael Resends (Mark Ruffalo) Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d'Arcy James) with a lot of skepticism but quickly revealing shocking information about the victims, their abusers, and how the elite was forced to hide the truth to keep an image of a perfect clerical society in Boston.
The film is powerful with strong performances by all the cast, Thomas Newman deliver a compelling original score, Tom McArdle gives the film the perfect pace on a outstanding editing.
Spotlight is not about journalist who becomes heroes, is about the power of ethics and the search for the truth, it's also about mistakes made and when you search for that truth you have to risk so many things in your life.
It's a cold and a beautiful beginning of the winter in 1952. The workers of a major department store are getting ready to welcome shoppers during their Christmas holidays. Among them we see a shy girl Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) a temporary shop girl in the toy department and aspiring photographer.
A stunning woman walk into the store, Carol looking for the perfect gift for her daughter. Therese sees her and get interested in her, probably is mutual. After a very simple conversation Therese is able to sell to Carol a train set and thanks to a lost gloves will be the very beginning of a intense relationship.
Carol (Cate Blanchett) is a sophisticated woman of the New York society, who enjoy a good life, she is unhappy. She is going to an awful divorce with her ex husband Harge (Kyle Chandler) which appears to be a manipulative business man, a possessive person and also misogynist who put
Todd Haynes directs a story of two women are looking for happiness. For Haynes this is not a virgin territory. In 2002 he directed "Far From Heaven" where a housewife Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) discover her husband is secretly gay and subsequently falls in love with Raymond (Dennis Haysbvert) her African American gardener.
In the film Carol love is forbidden, because is between two women who cannot find themselves around the arms of another man. Is 1952 is a time of innocence, but also is a conservative time where family structure it;s very traditional and formal. Homosexuality was a disease and in fact was treated with doctors.
Carol is blackmailed with her little girl to be the model housewife in order to quit her relationship with other women. The film explore unhappiness in the most happy time of all Christmas, men Misogyny's and also lack of women empower in a time where america was interested in keeping their women's in the kitchen.
This film is stunning when it comes to cinematography art direction and costume design. Blanchet and Mara have a perfect chemistry, but also are powerful in their roles.
This review for Star Wars: The Force Awakens represents my personal impressions of the film, is not intended to ruin everyone experience of the movie. Is my honest opinion of a a series of movies that I been cherish for years. This review might contain mild spoilers - read at your own risk
Finally the dark screen reveals the Lucasfilm, LTD logo, then the most famous title "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away" then the Star Wars logo and finally a three paragraph prologue which tells you the back story of what about to see. Means a lot because they need to explain 30 years of what happened after the events of the Battle of Endor. It tells you the engine of the whole story, what it's happening with our heroes and villains and then where are we heading. Pretty simple and straight forward.
What happen later, specifically in the first act of Episode VII is quick and "sort of in your face" the situation develops in a J.J. Abrams pace, which sometimes is not that necessary, we need to slow down a little bit, it's been 30 years. To me is like you are going to a middle eastern market and you been harassed by street vendors who are trying to sell you something and is very hard to process. you wanted to focus in a single thing and analyze it, but the first half and hour is rather fast.
New audiences are been introduced to 4 main characters, a new generation of actors who have the difficult task to continue the footsteps of Mark Hammill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, the original cast of our beloved Star Wars trilogy.
Rey (Daisy Ridley) a scavenger in a desert planet Jakku, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) a dark warrior commander of the first order, Finn (John Boyega) a redeemed First Order stormtrooper and Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) a resistance X wing fighter.
The plot develops quickly and again in your face, there is mission to find Luke Skywalker and of course there is a map hidden in a droid (sound familiar right?), the droid gets lost in the desert and been found by someone who is dreaming of leaving that place ( again, something pretty familiar) and then there is planet converted into a weapon to destroy other planets (please another familiar thing?) To me seems that already know what's happening and where I'm going, but what makes the film special is you leave behind a that horrendous prequels that everyday you want to forget about the origin of Darth Vader and there is still live for new films. Every new character is a mash up of at least two famous characters Poe Dameron feels like Luke, but also like Han Solo, Ray have similarities of Obi Wan Kenobi and Luke, Finn have similarities from Luke and Han Solo and even Kylo Ren who to me is a Darth Vader wanna be with bad temper, but he also becomes Star Trek's Khan from J.J. Abrams, a mystery guy that almost everyone knows who he is.
The true genuine character in the movie is called: BB-8 so much life and personality
But, don't get me wrong, the film delivers, very well. J.J. Abrams with writer Lawrence Kasdan create a very powerful mash-up of the original trilogy, filled with nuances and easter eggs that you really enjoy and reminds you that finally a movie who pays tribute to 3 films that George Lucas made with so much passion.
Star Wars The Force Awakens is a instant classic of the Star Wars universe, but is difficult to surpass the originals, the mission was accomplished. The fans are engage, they are going to make tons of money and they are revamping the story for a new generations. Overall the film is well crafted with the best of the best, but the real anticipation will be Star Wars: Episode VIII directed by Rian Johnson who will make a risky films with a different of point of view…
A melodic rock band start with a delicious female voice leading to a very energetic guitar unveiling a powerful lyric. You Got The Love by The Retrosettes Sister Band. The song glorify trust, strength and of course the best feeling of all "Love" This is the very beginning of the film "Youth" directed by Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty)
This film follow up another story of a frustrated artist living his septuagenarian life on earth. Fred Ballinger a retired composer who enjoy the success of his work, specially the one that he really hates, "Simple Songs" For every artist their finest work is not the one that was made with love and care, sometimes is the one that appeals the audience. Ballinger is similar to another frustrated artist on film, Riggan Thompson (Michael Keaton) in the movie Birdman, which is haunted by this demon, success with the less meaningful piece of art.
Sorrentino Italian director winner of the Academy Award for The Great Beauty presents similar characters from his previous work in this movie. Ballinger is a composer and Jep Gambardella is a novel writer. Both of them very successful in their art, are haunted by a woman in their past. But they also have a woman in the present, For Ballinger is his daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz) and for Gambardella is his editor Dadina, which constitute their conscience.
The film "Youth" takes place in a very peculiar place, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, a home to rejuvenate with hot springs, massage and healthy food. Of course this place is filled with millionaires, aristocrats, artists and celebrities. Ballinger best friend is Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel) who also stayed with him at the resort is a successful filmmaker who is completely attached to his past work as well his main inspiration actress Brenda Morel, another character in the story is Jimmy Tree (Paul Dano) an actor which to me mirrors Ballinger as another frustrated artist who enjoy more artsy work, but is haunted by his lest meaningful role, a robot in a sci-fi
Michael Cain is perfect for the role as well Harvey Keitel, the chemistry between them is pure magic. Dano and Weisz are excellent on screen. Some additional roles Roly Serrano playing the soccer player Maradona, Luna Zimic paying a Young masseuse and Madalina Diana Ghenea as Miss Universe represents those quirk characters that director Paul Sorrentino always like to introduce in his movies.
The director Sorrentino, continues amaze audiences with his style and subtle film making. He presents vignettes with the actors in beautiful locations and sublime stages, but also engage with the audiences with a powerful soundtrack that is not just sound, is a visual definition by bringing the musician who perform on screen with a elegant vision. He follow the roots of Fellini with magical scenes in a very symmetrical way.
"Youth" is a story about love, remembering missing time, mistakes made and the realization that nothing is overrated in this life, is more about what we have and what we can enjoy. Is a philosophical exploration of human beings who attend to place to find the fountain of youth, with just illusions discovering that is a just a place to understand what life is…
Human exploration of people captive in films is a very interesting subject that Hollywood and independent studios produce.
Movies such as Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Green Mile (1999), Papillon (1973), Rescue Dawn (2006) Empire of The Sun (1987), Unbroken (2014) Misery (1990) and Buried (2010) represents a wide variety of sub plots that goes from: Jails, prisoners of war and actual abduction.
In the film "Room" Director Lenny Abrahmson explore the life of Ma (Brie Larson) and his son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) who are confined in this small room, which contain a rudimentary kitchen, a bed, a toilet, a sink and a skylight. The film starts when Jack is turning 5 and her mom is doing her best effort to celebrate this landmark, by baking a cake. Throughout the film develops, the audience discover that they are locked in this room by a guy called Old Nick (Sean Bridges) who bring them supplies every night and also for sex with Ma. Ma was abducted about eight years ago in the film plot. Jack is living in a reality that is only portrayed in his personal window to the world, the television. Ironically the real window of the world for Ma is the skylight in this room, she can see the seasons and the time of the day, but for Jack is nothing. He don't know how the real world is and his sense of space is limited but the fact that Ma is the only person that he ever interacted. For Jack the room is a confined world but is a world of fantasies, sounds, smells and strange voices ( Old Nick paying a visit to Ma every night for sex)
Ma tries to give Jack some education by making him read books like Alice and Wonderland, but Ma also wants to escape and give Jack the life that he deserve. The process won't be easy…The escape is a beautiful and poetic moment which is also the biggest revelation for Jack been free for the first time.
The film Room is a very difficult film to watch, is a movie about the love of a mother for his child, the wounds of a person been abducted for years, the adaptation of a little boy to the real world, but also is a movie about justice and human and family values.
Brie Larson is outstanding in this role as well Jacob Tremblay, the film, is really well edited and well directed who carefully crafted with the art direction team the perfect space to make the audience feel locked in that Room.
One of the lack in this movie is the development of Ma's dad Robert Newsome (Willam H Macy) his character become important when a pivotal moment happen in the movie and later vanished from everyone's mind.
Charlie Kaufman is always been considered a visionary and groundbreaking screenwriter. Winner of several awards his reputation always related to twisted stories with a very personal and human quality. Adaptation, Synecdote New York, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal of The Spotless Mind, represents a bod of work, where the main character is the human emotions, most of his characters are empty and they are looking for a way to escape from the reality.
In Anomalisa, directed by Kaufman and Duke Johnson a truly visionary stop motion animated film we been introduce to Michael Stone (David Thewlis) a book author traveling to Cincinnati for a conference where he will be the speaker. His book is a exploration of how costumer service can fix the struggles of connect with people. From the very beginning Michael is the victim of what he been trying to achieve in his book. He is a very introspective person who cannot relate to people, he is a jerk and you notice every time he opens his mouth. Michael is not interested in the weather, if the Cincinati Zoo is the best, he seems to be a practical person who is not interested in explanations or engagements, he just wants things done.
In a way I relate to him, because the world is now immerse in banalities that could be pretty normal for some, but for me its superficiality. The masterful script by Kaufman reveals a very strange phenomenon to Michael and the audience seems to be confused about it. Every single character have the same voice (Tom Noonan) This adds up to the routine that Michael live every day, is a constant reminder of the daily routine that he lives or some people live. All the sounds are the same and for Michael even his wife and kid sounds the same.
To me is a metaphor of a routine life in America, you drink the same juice, you walk the same steps, you take the same train and you work the same work every day without challenges or variations.
After a sudden events that involves Michael meeting with his lost love, he meet Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and fan of his book and also a very introspective and shy girl who loves Cyndi Lauper. Lisa is different from the very beginning not because she have the only female voice is because she is different and her behavior raise interest in Michael. Is not aiming for a beautiful or sexy girl, his obsession with her is about her voice and her ability of be different from the sea of people who are just the same.
Kaufman and Johnson exploration of life, loneliness, human connection represents in a way a very eccentric story, but the meaning is powerful. I wish that the movie was trimmed at least 10 min just to make it perfect. Overall is a great movie. With two confusing parts in the story.
After the huge success of Skyfall the new chapter of James Bond story comes with the film Spectre.
The story continues were was left off. James Bond (Daniel Craig) continues his erratically behavior by disobeying M orders of not travel to other countries and operate on his own. Previous M (Judi Dench) leaves a posthumous message to kill two men plotting a terrorist attack and also eliminate Marco Sciarra.
The operation turns deadly. After Bond returns to London is suspended by current M (Ralph Fiennes) which is dealing with more delicate problems. MI6 is going to be dismantle by "so called" new espionage technology company name lead by C (Andrew Scott) the idea is to get rid of the 00 agents and the program and continue operations with computer surveillance and drones. None in Mi6 are happy about it.
Bond continues follow previous M messages with the help of Q (Ben Whishaw) and Moneypenny (Naomi Harris)
traveling to Rome where he meets Lucia Sciarra ( Monica Belluci) at Marco's funeral. In Rome he will have the biggest revelation of all. He will encounter Spectre organization, lead by Ernst Stavro Blofeld
At this point the audience understand who are the crucial roles here. But unfortunately you are able to predict in which direction the story goes. Spectre film directed by Sam Mendes, pretends to continue the footsteps of Skyfall and felt flat. Spectre is a very predictable film with amazing actions scene, that sometimes can be compared to Pierce Brosnan movies. Try to connect all the villans from previous James Bond/Daniel Craig films, it's just a easy set up to give closure for this Bond to a new Bond and a new director who will definitely needs a new wave for the agent 007
Christoph Waltz character is basically a caricature of villains that I ever seen in other not so good Bond films or even other movies. I was so annoyed by his character that I was expecting after certain events, he will reappear in a wheelchair, caressing a cat, with his head bold and with scars on his face, to connect directly with For Your Eyes Only movie
I feel that if I have to give a comparison to this movie, this film is the Star Was Episode III: Revenge of The Sith of the James Bond movies. Were you reveal a villain origin. More than seen the origin of Blofeld, I wanted to see the origin of Goldfinger or even Dr No.
The film is beautiful shot, with amazing landscapes in Rome, Austria, Morocco and London,The opening scene in Mexico is a masterpiece and clearly was influence by the Academy Award winner Bridman. That's probably my favorite thing, overall I wasn't impress.
When I was suggested to see Brooklyn a few weeks ago, my expectations were very low. Not because all the artistic values, but because I felt that this movie wasn't for me, the plot lean towards a female story just for women. I was pleasantly surprise and also wrong about my assumption.
Brooklyn tells the story of Ellis (Saoirse Ronan) a young woman living in a small town of Ireland. She lives with her sister, Ellis works in a small shop where the owner Mrs Kelly bully most of her employees. When you discover this character Ellis you noticed a very quiet and humble person, but also naive and innocent. Ellis sister Rose arrange to send Ellis to America where she can find better opportunities. The moment of revelation comes when she is onboard and stumble a female traveler who is just returning back to the USA after visiting her family in Ireland. This woman traveler is experienced which help Ellis thru her difficult journey to America. From how to behave on board, what to wear and how to react when you meet immigration officers in the USA
Ellis arrive to the US and everything is new and interesting, she start living in a Irish boarding house, she get a job in a department store. All her support come from Father Flood (Jim Broadbent) which quickly realized that Elllis is home sick and heavily depressed. Ellis also express her sadness in letters sent to Rose, Father Flood is informed and make sure to do something about it. Ellis is enrolled in bookkeeping classes where the audience noticed how her life improves and also is able to meet her new love Antonio Fiorello (Emory Cohen) Ellis story continues with ups and downs throughout the movie…
John Crowley directs Brooklyn a film that touch most of everyone's heart. For an immigrant like me, I was able to connect with Ellis and understand what is like to be away from home in a new land, finding a way to fit, but also experience the sadness of loosing a love one and have to make my journey home without the option to say a proper goodbye. A phone call is that sudden message and you need the strength to go back and face that reality.
Brooklyn also represents a beautiful way of been an immigrant loving someone throughout the seasons, you start a relationship in the winter and develops thru spring and summer, but then becomes dramatic again in the fall and winter. The film is so colorful with the masterful art direction by François Séguin, Irene O Brien, Suzanne Cloutier and Robert Parle. The costume design by Odlie Dicks-Mireaux and cinematography by Yves Bélanger.
The story of Brooklyn is simple and very engaging, but also can be a little bit flat for easy and quick conclusion. Saoirse Ronan is a great and talented actress, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters are the most noticeable performance besides Ronan. The films grow and shows Saoirse Ronan evolution in a cyclical story where she departs vulnerable and returns home stronger than ever.
In the beginning of time, humans been expose to the greatest inventions: the wheel, automobile, celluloid, ink and computer, there is always one person name as the inventor, but the people behind it were never included as the creators or responsible. Perhaps the miss conceptions of true genius lays in the fact that the creator not necessary is the one who have the skills to do it, is the vision to create it, what is recognize by the society.
In the film "Steve Jobs", director Danny Boyle ( Slummdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) presents a very egocentric and arrogant leader of the Apple corporation in 3 major landmarks of his career. The film build as a 3 acts introduce the major characters, develop around the keynotes when a new product is been introduce, but also set the foundation of Steve Jobs persona.
The first act begins with the challenges for Apple presenting the Macintosh computer in 1983. We see a young Steve Jobs (Michael Fasbender) full of arrogance, treating his engineers as puppets forcing them to work as hard as a can to make the computer smile. While all this is happening his marketing executive Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet) is dealing the paternity dispute revealed in a Time Magazine, who brought Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterson) to the theater where the keynote is taking place so Steve can meet his allegedly daughter Lisa.
Danny Boyle presents this 3 long scenes with a outstanding film style showing the stages of every character. Jobs personalities develops with the success of Apple Macintosh, the failure of NeXT and the comeback with iMac.
Michael Fasbender is fascinating as Steve Jobs, you care for him for trying to be the father figure, but you also hate him, despise him for the person person that he was, with his colleagues, partners and his workers. But you also admire him for be the center of attention, the visionary who make Apple what it is, a true groundbreaking company that develops good looking products.
Ket Winslet is powerful as Joanna Hoffman, she is the voice of conscience for Steve Jobs. But the person who steal the scenes every time it appears is Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak. Besides of been a pain in the but to Jobs, he is also who is just fighting for the people who build, the Macintosh, the iMac, and other products who make Jobs the star of Apple.
Steve Jobs is a powerful film, that is considered more a failure than a success for Hollywood, but is a great example of how to make a biopic, without telling the whole story all over again.
Fade from black the film start with a legend, the true definition of Sicario.
latin term is a hitman, a person responsible killing by contract. But in Hebrew, Roman kill Zealots.
With this title we been presented a blue print of what about too see. FBI agents Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) and Reggie Wayne (Daniel Kaluuya) raid the house of a suspected kidnappers. The team finds more than dozen of bodies hidden on the walls of the house.
After this operation Kate's boos recommend her to Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) a CIA Special Activities Division to join the team. Matt is searching for a cartel boss who presumably was one of the responsible of the murders found by Kate and Reggie.
Kate character is a green agent who still learning the vicious cycle inside FBI and CIA. Throughout the film she start discovering the corruption, manipulation, abuse of power of this federals agencies, but she is unaware of who is the real enemy. Kate is a strong woman on the outside, vulnerable for been alone and also divorced, it's also supporter of ethics and respect in the force, one of her biggest enemies in this war against corruption.
Arriving to el Paso, Texas in a orchestrated operation lead by Matt Graver, Kate meet with Alejandro Gallic (Benicio del Toro) an advisor who seems to have ties with enemy. Alejandro is very sketchy person, and Kate figure out the first time she see him.
Besides all this red flags Matt use it as his primary connection to get the cartel people capture.
Sicario is a thriller but also a great film about the hard reality of drug traffic in US borders. Masterfully directed by Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) the movie immerse you in a harsh terrain where only the strongest succeed. Villeneuve engage with the audience with a rollercoaster of emotions by manipulating the senses. Sicario have constant moments of silence, also supported by the impactful original score by Jóhann Jóhannsson and the intense sound crafted for this film. The visual style is borrowed from films by Steven Sodergber in Traffic, also Jonathan Demme in Silence of The Lambs. The intense and long aerial shots are powerful and serve as another character for the movie
After carefully you finish the film you came to the conclusion who is the enemy and who are the zealots. You care for Kate's character but not so much for Matt and Alejandro. The true meaning of sicario is the search for fanatical and uncompromising pursuit of ideas, that could be religious or political, you just need to pick one.
The search for beauty or being recognize as the must beautiful is a social quest that every woman have. Sometimes can be with more intensity in countries devoted to make little girls transcend into beauty contestant.
In the USA are children beauty pageants, in latin america are group dedicated to literally sculpt women to perfection, in order to become potentially contestants beauty pageants
In the film "3 Beauties" - Tres Bellezas Director Carlos Caridad breaks the "status quo" with a dark comedy about a mom, her two daughters and son in the obsession about beauty, perfection and success. Perla (Diana Peñalver) is a ex beauty queen, her plan is make one of the her daughters a beauty queen as well.
Carolina (Fabiola Arace) is her favorite. This is very noticeable from the very beginning of the story. Mom wants Carolina to be the special one, the potential is Venezuela, but on the other side Estefanía is putted away as the less beautiful.
Perla's son Salvador (Fabían Moreno) is probably the most important in the story, he is the man of the house, but thanks to this chaotic dramatic triangle of beauty queens he is none.
Carlos Caridad directs a story that connects the audience thanks to several cultural nuance of Venezuela, but also with very dry and smart humor, following the footsteps of films like Wild Tales, In Bruges, Bad Santa, Submarine and Art School Confidential. 3 Beauties appeal to this humor to show you how far a mother can go to fulfill her own dreams of to make one of her daughter a beauty contestant.
The film criticize the system of how beauty pageants works, Carlos Carded dare to compare it to an actual cult, but bringing the characters into actual cult when a sudden event in the story brings the family together The Universal Church - Stop Suffering.
The film is fun a pretty entertaining, and sometimes controversial.
Gangsters films represents one of the most popular genres in film history. Movies staring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G Robinson, James Cagney and Paul Mooney becomes the backbone of stories filled with violence and moral messages about family, honor and corruption. Later stories were inherited by Al Pacino, Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci, Denzel Washington, Matt Damon and Leonardo Di Caprio.
Now Johnny Depp have his chance of been a bad guy with the film Black Mass. This film is the true story of one of the most violent criminals of South Boston Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp) leader of the Iris-American Winter Hill Gang. The story develops when a FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Egerton) childhood friend of Bulger and William Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch) Massachusetts state senator pressure the two bothers to help him to go after the Angiulo Brothers gang offer Whitey Bulger his chance of been an informant letting him operate his way.
Connolly is in control of the Bulger's but also of his FBI department manipulating his boss Charles McGuire (Kevin Bacon) and his close coworker John Morris (David Harbour)
Director Scott Cooper ( Crazy Heart) delivers an outstanding gangster movie filled with action, great performances and also with very interesting visual style. Johnny Depp playing Whitey Bulger is one of his best performances yet, since Edwood, Chocolate and Finding Neverland. His make up goes the borderline of creepy to very realistic gang leader Whitey Bulger.
Moving to NYC is probably one of the most complex and hard decision ever. Specially for college students, the pressure of been cool or trendy, also fit in the right groups is always the key. Tracy (Lora Kirke) comes to NY to study creative writing. Quickly she realize that she needs to be important in the school and also outside. Let's face it, she is in NY and she needs to own the city. Tracy's mom is getting married, her future husband have a daughter living successfully in the city. Brooke (Greta Gerwing) is a caricaturesque, pretentious, and egocentric New Yorker. After Tracy's mom insistence of meeting the two stepsisters to be, Tracy make the call…
Brooke meet with her (Tracy) in center of NYC, Time Square. After a long night where Tracy get completely impressed by Brooke success, the audience start discovering what kind of person she is. Everyone who lives in NY or any other major city meet someone who lives thru appearances and have so many projects going on like Brooke. On the other hand Tracy is another character that you meet in NY. The newbie who's trying to understand how the city works, how to deal with people the best way possible but also is the victim of self-assurance.
Noah Baumbah directs Mistress in America a story of two girls who discover thru each other their weakness, dreams and desires. The director satire city characters who are looking to be trendy and meaningful in this world, by using smoke and mirrors to impress their surroundings. Brooke is an entrepreneur/gym trainer/schemer who just simply impress Tracy who is a lonely girl who's looking for a reason to fit.
The film is witty and sometimes funny. But at the end could be a sad reality for some people who feel amused by the real representation of people around us.
Is another night in NYC, the wet streets after a scatter rain, yellow shapes of taxis passing by non stop, suddenly a man rush to get a cab, his wife is chasing him, she is in distress, after a back seat argument the driver accept to do two separate rides.
This is how the story of Wendy and Darwan starts. "Learning to Drive" is the most recent movie from the female director Isabel Coixet based on a short story from Katha Pollit and written to the screen by Sarah Kernochan.
Patricia Clarkson and Sir Ben Kingsley start in the tale of two lost souls in a very conflicted moment for them. Wendy (Clarkson) plays a book critic and radio interviewee recently dumped by her husband, and Darwan Singh Tur (Kingsley) is a driving instructor and also a moonlight cabbie who is soon to be married to an Indian woman in an arranged marriage.
Mrs Coixet approach to the story is to show a parallel life for both of them. The wealthy life of the Upper West side and a most mundane life in Queens. A manuscript from Wendy left in Darwan cab connects them, is like a divine intervention. Wendy is in her most vulnerable time while for her new cabbie friend Darwan security and strength he represents her light at the end of the tunnel, a way out for her.
Don't get confuse with the story, this is not a romantic story, is a story of friendship how two cultures collide, while one person is highly educated book critic, the other is a well manner immigrant, with aspirations and dreams, but relegated in America by racial discrimination.
Darwan offers Wendy to teach her how to drive, not just because she don't know how to, is because metaphorically speaking, Darwan is capable to put her on track in her life. "When you are cooking, how do you know if you put enough spices? By tasting, the same way is for driving, you have to taste the road" Wendy and Darwan grows deeper, they discover more of them, their fears and of course their aspirations.
Now that the road direction seems clear, a new detour comes. Jasleen (Sarita Choudhury) the arranged bride arrived to NYC, while the encounter is not the perfect one; Jasleen and Darwan have to adapt themselves to this new situation. The road needs some adjustments with a little bit of sacrifice.
I praise the simplicity and honesty of this film, which just try to describe an honest friendship that grows inside a car, by teaching one another that life can be very complicated if we hold ourselves to things and we are not capable of let go, let go anger, fears, sadness even some dreams.
Clarkson and Kingsley are perfect in their roles. The film is a real treat thanks to director Isabel Coixet. Beautiful edited by Thelma Scoonmaker and Keith Reamer.


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My fear for boys warped by porn: Schools MUST teach pupils about online risks, insists Culture Secretary
- Maria Miller said parents must talk to children about dangers of online porn
- It comes as charity warns that 11-year-olds are 'addicted'
- MP added that schools must consider educating youngsters about threat
'Pernicious effect': MP Maria Miller says youngsters will grow up with a warped idea of relationships thanks to porn
An impassioned attack on the 'pernicious effect' of online porn was delivered by the Culture Secretary yesterday.
Maria Miller warned that young boys who see explicit images risk growing up with a warped idea of how to treat girls.
She demanded that teachers, parents and internet giants do more to prevent children from accidentally viewing such images.
And she denounced the culture that has led to an explosion of X-rated net pictures, saying: 'Too often in the past we have been happy to say "anything goes". Well – it doesn't.'
The Culture Secretary's intervention came as the Prime Minister's adviser on the sexualisation of children, Claire Perry, said it was never too early to start educating youngsters about the online dangers.
'People say primary school is too young. No: Babies can swipe iPads. You can't, in some ways, start young enough,' Mrs Perry told a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.
And Mrs Miller, a mother of three, stressed that 'responsible parents' needed to speak to children earlier about the effect internet porn had on their understanding of relationships.
Charities say children as young as 11 are becoming addicted to internet porn, giving them 'unrealistic expectations' of sex. They also say it is encouraging boys to grow up viewing girls merely as sex objects.
Counsellors at ChildLine also report a surge in calls from youngsters traumatised after seeing adult images online.
Teaching unions have called for pupils to be taught about porn from the age of ten so they can protect themselves from stumbling across adult images.
Mrs Miller did not suggest an age, but said governors should think about whether it should be tackled in their schools.
Danger: A third of people who sent 'sexts' said they went to people they had met only online, while 15 per cent had sent images to total strangers (posed by model)
She said: 'There is guidance available to schools in terms of the way they can help young people navigate their responsibilities in this area. I am fearful of the result if we don't take action particularly in terms of young boys' attitudes to girls, their relationships, what's seen as a normal relationship between two young people.'
It is the first time the Culture Secretary, who is in charge of internet policy, has spoken out over school lessons on porn.
While groups such as the NSPCC are in favour of such a move, some believe it could have the opposite effect of introducing children to adult material for the first time.
But Mrs Miller said many schools would naturally want to 'ensure the children in their care understand the importance of not accessing material like that when they are underage, and also the pernicious effect of pornography in their lives long-term'.
She also said imposing filters on internet porn would not be enough – children had to be taught to use the web responsibly.
A spokesman for the NSPCC said: 'Online videos, some of them violent and degrading, are now just a few clicks away for many young people'. File picture
Special adviser Mrs Perry, Tory MP for Devizes, called on Education Secretary Michael Gove to bring in new statutory guidance for secondary schools about how teach children about online porn.
'Teenage boys send teenage girls naked selfies [self-taken photos] and teenage girls send them,' she said.
'There are so many things wrong with that, and part of the problem is that children don't understand that giving away digital identities is something that can stay with you for ever.'
The Daily Mail has been campaigning for an automatic block on online porn, with over-18s able to access adult material only following a strict age verification check.
In the summer David Cameron announced a compromise 'default on' solution, under which all families will be asked whether a filter should be applied.
Last night a spokesman for the NSPCC said: 'It's absolutely essential that young people are educated about the dangers of pornography. Online videos, some of them violent and degrading, are now just a few clicks away for many young people.
'And children as young as 11 or 12 tell us that they are using porn to learn about sex. We must speak to young people about what healthy, meaningful and respectful relationships are before their views are warped by the prism of online porn.'
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Also called a "short straddle," the bear straddle is a risky position based on the premise that prices will not see a significant change. If this premise is wrong, the investor can experience sizable losses, like when derivatives trader Nick Leeson contributed to the bankruptcy of Barings Bank in 1995 with an ill-fated short straddle.
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This page contains Sonic The Hedgehog Unlockables for Xbox 360 called "Normal Achievements" and has been posted or updated on Nov 6, 2006 by Cachfula.
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- Developer: Sega
- Publisher: Sega
- Genre: Action Platformer
- Release: Nov 14, 2006
- ESRB: Everyone 10+
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Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.
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|Blue Phantom (20 points)
|Super Sonic Obtain the all moves.
|Dark Hero (50 points)
|Meet all the requests with magnificent skill.
|Elite Agent (40 points)
|Complete all the tasks given as agent.
|Gold Medalist: (50 points)
|Find all the Soleanna legendary Gold Medals...
|Legend of Soleanna (100 points)
|Overcome all trials and accomplish a great feat.
|Nights of Kronos (60 points)
|Unlock the complete ending to the last hidden story.
|One To Reach The End (20 points)
|End the last hidden story.
|Psychic Soldier (20 points)
|Obtain all the power to save the future world.
|Shadow Episode - Cleared (30 points)
|Clear Shadow Episode.
|Shadow Episode - Completed (40 points)
|Clear unlocked Shadow difficult level mission.
|Shadow Episode - Mastered (60 points)
|Clear all unlocked Shadow ACT Missions with Rank S.
|Silver Episode - Cleared (30 points)
|Clear Silver Episode.
|Silver Episode - Completed (40 points)
|Clear unlocked Silver difficult level mission.
|Silver Episode - Mastered (60 points)
|Clear all unlocked Silver ACT Missions with Rank S.
|Silver Medalist (50 points)
|Find all the Silver Medals scattered around Soleanna...
|Silver The Liberator (40 points)
|Solve all the mystery in Soleanna.
|Silver The Savior (50 points)
|Reveal all the secrets with your ultimate power.
|Soleanna's blue wind (50 points)
|Solve all the problems swiftly.
|Soleanna's Hero (40 points)
|Solve all Soleannans' problems.
|Sonic Episode - Cleared (30 points)
|Clear Sonic Episode.
|Sonic Episode - Completed (40 points)
|Clear unlocked Sonic difficult level mission.
|Sonic Episode - Mastered (60 points)
|Clear all unlocked Sonic ACT Missions with Rank S.
|Ultimate Life Form (20 points)
|Resurrect the ultimate power from the lost memory.
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