Drama – Page 6 – Deep Sand

Gran Torino – A Movie Review

February 9, 2009February 11, 2009 John Action, Asian, Bee Vang, bigotry, Clint Eastwood, Drama, Gangs, Gangsters

Archie Bunker meets Dirty Harry: Walt Kowalski is a widower, grumpy, tough-minded, borderline-hateful, unhappy old man who can’t get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1973 Gran Torino he keeps in cherry condition. When his neighbor Tao, a young Hmong teenager, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Tao’s family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them form the gangs that foul their neighborhood. It’s worth seeing, just wait until it is out on video.

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Wrestler, The – A Movie Review

January 25, 2009January 26, 2009 John Darren Aronofsky, Drama, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Mickey Rourke

Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a 1980s-era pro wrestler, has become a burnt-out shell of his former self. After he has a heart attack during a small-time match, a doctor tells him he could die if he fights again. In an effort to build a new life, Robinson takes a job at a deli, But the prospect of a rematch with his old nemesis, the Ayatollah, proves too tempting to resist, even if it means risking his life.

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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.

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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.

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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.