In a 1960s rural community, a young girl navigates her coming-of-age only to discover family secrets of mental illness, love, and loss that change the course of her life.
A showcase of the best Thriller/Supense Films in the world today!
AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best Short Film: Versipellis Best Direction: Tale & Bones – Dark Princess Best Story: Chak-316
Tale & Bones – Dark Princess, 3min., USA Directed by Daniella Meggoe, Benson Jackson Dark Princess is a psychological short highlighting the unique relationship between a grandmother and her grandchild. The innocent yet menacing ques are overlooked as something mysteriously dark is brewing.
Chak-316, 12min., Pakistan Directed by Shaheer Iqbal Zara Ahmed, a driven and ambitious petroleum executive in her mid-30s, is on the brink of sealing the biggest deal of her career.
Versipellis, 26min., UK Directed by James Rigby In this spine-chilling horror film, a young girl, Sophia, faces the dilemma of choosing whom to trust when an imposter infiltrates her home.
A showcase of the best Action/Crime/Mystery films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best Mystery Film: NOBODY’S BUSINESS Best Crime Film: PRIOR BAD ACTS Best Action Film: HUNTED
HUNTED, 5min., USA Directed by Eleazar Valenzuela Two sisters are fleeing from corrupt police officers intent on their destruction. Sofia possesses something highly sought after, and the officers are determined to obtain it, no matter the cost.
NOBODY’S BUSINESS, 11min., Australia Directed by Erifili Davis Set in 1920s Australian underworld of sly grog and illicit narcotics, a woman must choose between love and her reputation.
PRIOR BAD ACTS, 15min., USA Directed by Thomas Allen Gear Marine Leroy Brown tries to protect the other riders on a subway car and chokes a man to death. His public defender Emily Ann thinks Leroy can win at trial. Their intense conversation is the last thing before Leroy has to put himself in prison or take the advice of a less than Ivy League lawyer he has know for a half hour. He believes in honor, courage and duty. Emily Ann knows there is no such thing as a fair fight.
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This is so beautiful… doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it. To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
[on why she dropped her last name] I dropped my last name because I just thought it was cool, like Cher or Prince.
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[in 1993] I’ve always maintained that actors are best when they find characters that are congruent with the emotions they’re going through at the moment.
[in 1993] My wife doesn’t understand why I’m a sex symbol. She says I don’t look different from a guy on the street.
[In 2012, reflecting on working with Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)] I was delighted, she was perfect for the part . . .
She has a really interesting quality. Again, I haven’t seen this film in 30 years. But she is, she’s really a kind of true heart in the camera. It’s very hard to be as kind of open and unguarded and nice. You know, a nice person and kind of a genuine person and true heart on camera. That’s not an easy thing to do. She’s able to pull that off. I could never be that way. I was too complicated. There were too many things going on. Just the straightforward presence is an extremely difficult thing to do.
There doesn’t appear to be any sort of basis for any of this. I have a feeling something hidden is at work here that will someday see the light of day. I keep asking myself where all this personal enmity between George Bush and Saddam Hussein comes from. It’s like the story of Captain Ahab and the great white whale from “Moby Dick”. We have to say, “Stop”. There’s no reason for a war. At the moment Hussein is not threatening anybody. It’d be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn’t seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man poses an immediate threat to anybody. America has never paid any attention to other people, so it’s absurd for Bush to say that it’s all in the best interests of the Iraqi people. If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.
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BEDAZZLED follows a computer company worker who makes a deal with the Devil to receive seven wishes in exchange for his soul so he can pursue the woman he loves, though the Devil twists the spirit of each wish to frustrate him.
A remake of the 1967 British film of the same name, written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, itself a comic retelling of the Faust legend.
Directed by Harold Ramis Screenplay by Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis, Peter Tolan Produced by Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O’Connor
Release dates: October 20, 2000 Running time 93 minutes Budget $48 million Box office $90.3 million
TOP 5 BEDAZZLED MOVIE REVIEWS:
#1) Nell Minow Common Sense Media Charming Fraser Faustian tale with lots of sexual innuendo.
#2) Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Hurley is great fun to watch, a Faustian powerhouse of curves, smoky eyes and big hair who sounds exactly like Jackie Collins doing an imitation of Madonna’s pan-European accent. It’s creepy, but effective.
#4) Rob Blackwelder SPLICEDWire Has its flaws, but the laughs keep coming at a steady clip — and in a slight comedy such as this, that’s what matters most.
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“Meet the Parents” stars Ben Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse who suffers a series of unfortunate events while visiting his girlfriend’s parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner). Teri Polo stars as Greg’s girlfriend, and Owen Wilson stars as Pam’s ex-boyfriend.
Directed by Jay Roach
Screenplay by Jim Herzfeld, John Hamburg
Story by Greg Glienna, Mary Ruth Clarke Based on Meet the Parents (1992 film)
Produced by Nancy Tenenbaum, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro
Starring Robert De Niro Ben Stiller Blythe Danner Teri Polo James Rebhorn Jon Abrahams Owen Wilson
Release date October 6, 2000
Running time 108 minutes
Budget $55 million
Box office $330.4 million
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TOP 5 MOVIE REVIEWS:
#1 – Wendy Ide The Times (UK) It’s just that it’s the kind of comedy that’s as likely to have you gnawing your fist in an agony of embarrassment as it is to make you laugh.
#2 – Bob Thomas Associated Press Meet the Parents isn’t as funny as There’s Something About Mary, nor as outrageous. But it confirms that Ben Stiller is the best of today’s young practitioners of frustration comedy.
#4 – Richard Schickel TIME Magazine Alas, poor Focker. He can’t help himself. And we can’t help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie.
“Meet the Parents” stars Ben Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse who suffers a series of unfortunate events while visiting his girlfriend’s parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner). Teri Polo stars as Greg’s girlfriend, and Owen Wilson stars as Pam’s ex-boyfriend.
Directed by Jay Roach
Screenplay by Jim Herzfeld, John Hamburg
Story by Greg Glienna, Mary Ruth Clarke
Based on Meet the Parents (1992 film)
Produced by Nancy Tenenbaum, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro
Starring
Robert De Niro
Ben Stiller
Blythe Danner
Teri Polo
James Rebhorn
Jon Abrahams
Owen Wilson
Release date
October 6, 2000
Running time 108 minutes
Budget $55 million
Box office $330.4 million
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TOP 5 MOVIE REVIEWS:
#1 – Wendy Ide
The Times (UK)
It’s just that it’s the kind of comedy that’s as likely to have you gnawing your fist in an agony of embarrassment as it is to make you laugh.
Meet the Parents isn’t as funny as There’s Something About Mary, nor as outrageous. But it confirms that Ben Stiller is the best of today’s young practitioners of frustration comedy.
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