Movies – Page 16 – Deep Sand

Baby – A Movie Review

January 24, 2009February 15, 2009 John Asian, David Huynh, Drama, Feodor Chin, Gangs, Juwan Chung

A tragic tale of an Asian youth’s gang life in South East Los Angeles, set during the mid 80’s to the early 90s.

Defiance – A Movie Review

January 20, 2009January 21, 2009 John Daniel Craig, Drama, Edward Zwick, Holocaust, Jews, Liev Schreiber, Non-Fiction, WWII

Four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village inside the forest and saved the lives of more than 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.

Culture Movies

Wackness, The – A Movie Review

January 20, 2009January 21, 2009 John 1994, Ben Kingsley, Comedy, Drama, Jonathan Levine, Josh Peck, New York, Pot

New York, summer 1994, the greatest year in hip-hop, a troubled teenage drug dealer trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist intent on living his life to the fullest. The two form an unlikely friendship, but things get complicated when the kid falls for the doctor’s daughter.

Culture Fun Stuff Movies

Pineapple Express – A Movie Review

January 19, 2009January 19, 2009 John Action, Comedy, David Gordon Green, James Franco, Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen

Process server Dale Denton has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver, deigning to visit only to purchase Saul’s primo product–a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it’s traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives–and they quickly discover that they’re not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

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Savages, The – A Movie Review

January 5, 2009January 23, 2009 John Drama, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tamara Jenkins

The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage, is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. We were pleasantly surprised.