MOVIES
What is the most important for a father and his family?
Review by Jenny Alvarez
Like Father, Like Son, written and directed by veteran filmmaker Kore-Eda Hirokazu (After Life, Nobody Knows, Still Walking).This story centers on Ryota (Japanese star FUKUYAMA Masaharu), a driven and successful Tokyo architect who works such long hours that he has little time to spend with his wife, Midori (ONO Machiko), and six-year-old son, Keita. When a blood test reveals Keita and another baby were switched at birth, two very different families are thrown together and forced to make a difficult decision while Ryota confronts his own issues of responsibility and what it means to be a father. This movie explores issues of human beings with humanistic touch and how a society makes guilty parents struggle to achieve a healthy life/work balance, especially for families with children younger than 7 years. With no doubts this is a film full of contrasts – the rich control their kids’ time and hobbies, the poor don’t – are italicized. Hirokazu has crafted a warm and lovely film with some dramatic moments especially when dealing with the two families, rather than just the father of its title. Machika Ono, who plays his wife Midori, is engaging as the mother distraught with the guilt that she could not recognize her own son, yet unwilling to part from the son she has called hers for six years. This was the best part of the movie because it happens in real life and all the cast performances are incredible, sensitive and the script is well structured with a good message which teaches us the importance of being a father and how they manage their carriers and family life.
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Steven Seagal from the action movies to the politics
Steven Seagal an actor and martial arts expert said he is considering a run for the Arizona governor’s office.He is following Arnold schwarzenegger’s steps when this last one was a California governor.
The Past will follow you until your present
Review by Jenny Alvarez
Following a four year separation, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his estranged French wife Marie (Bérénice Béjo)’s request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure so she can marry her new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim). During his tense brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie’s relationship with her teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet). Ahmad’s efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past, and the highly charged revelations affecting every character in Mr. Farhadi’s complex screenplay unfold with his trademark nuance. Once again he showcases his gifts as a masterful storyteller and director who elicits riveting performances from his cast.
It is an intricate and often brilliant drama, with restrained and intelligent movie especially when the story sustains its momentum due entirely to the writing and performances. The Past is so good even questionable scenes become great as the words when Farhadi could continue beyond his work in A Separation, he’s set that doubt aside. In some scenes you simply can’t and don’t want to stop watching. The Past is Iran’s submission to the 2014 Academy Awards for best foreign language film, despite its French producer. So delicately conceived, each subtle nuance is infinitely more crucial. For each character deserve to be expressed.
“More Than Honey” will give a sweet taste of a realistic documentary
Review by Jenny Alvarez
– Kino Lorber is part of the critically acclaimed documentary version narrated by Oscar®-nominated actor John Hurt (Alien, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).
The original theatrical version (with narration in German) is only available through the film’s official website.
Born into a family of beekeepers, Oscar®-nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boart is Full) tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With the tenacity of a man out to solve a world-class mystery, he investigates this global phenomenon, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia.
More Than Honey Exquisite macro-photography of the bees in flight and in their hives (on a par with the brilliant cinematography of Microcosmos) reveals a fascinating, complex world in crisis. This is a haunting and lyrical film that raises questions of species survival in philosophical, as well as apiary, terms.
The relationship between mankind and honeybees, about nature and about our future is in risk. Honeybees show us that stability is just as unhealthy as unlimited growth that crises and disasters are triggering evolution and that salvation sometimes comes from a completely unexpected direction.
The cinematography, by Jörg Jeshel, is spectacularly and free from polemics, but it is an alarming call to action and is full of passion, sincerity and intelligence make it a worthwhile contribution to a situation baffling the scientific and bee-keeping communities.
The Miracle Of Spanish Harlem will touch your heart in Christmas
By Jenny Alvarez
Here’s a feel good holiday movie titled, directed by Derek Velez Partridge, its stars Kate del Castillo, Adrian Martinez, Andre Royo, Tony Plana, Priscilla Lopez and Fatima Ptacek. The Miracle of Spanish Harlem is a magical romantic drama following the life of Tito Jimenez, a widower and father of two girls. Tito, holding down two jobs has trouble providing for his family and has lost his faith. Now, with a second chance at love, he is forced to make a decision that will drag him and his entire a family down a trail of love, faith and redemption that begins with a lie and ends with a surprisingly true miracle.
Faith and redemption are the main elements of this plot but “love” is the most important feeling for anything that you want to do. Latino actors played a well structured and important role for each part of the scenes. The most important Christmas present is the family unification and the filmmakers tried to show a warm,heavy-handed religious movies with a message full of hope so as spectator you will be surprised with higher expectations, due to the familiar faces in the cast.
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (2013)
By: Galatview Staff
Photos By: Alfonso De Elias
The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.
GalaTView was in the black carpet and all this wonderful cast was shot by different photographers. Here are some of the pics about them!
Paul Greengrass, accepted the challenge of the adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Stand'
By GalaTView Staff
Gerald Henderson , director of Captain Phillips, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and Green Zone could be the final person slotted to take on the project. King’s novel The Stand is the story of a post-apocalyptic world where 99 percent of the population has been wiped out from a superflu pandemic. In 1994 the story was made into a TV mini-series that starred Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald and Gary Sinise. The series only lasted one season. Fun fact: Stephen King made an appearance in the mini-series, as did Kareem Abdul-Jabba.
Tom Cruise denies he 'Abandoned' Daughter Suri
Tom Cruise admitted that ex-wife Katie Holmes filed for divorce “to protect Suri from Scientology,” court documents said. When a spouse -whose sanity you do not dispute- feels the need to “protect” your child from your own religion, maybe it is time to take a good long look at that religion.
Do your list as soon as be possible
By Jenny Alvarez
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“The to do list” include cast as Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader,Alia Shawkat, Sarah Steele, Rachel Bilson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, DonaldGlover, Scott Porter, Andy Samberg, Connie Britton and Clark Gregg, “The To Do List” is a comedy about close friends and a special summer project, loosely inspired by the real-life adventures of first-time writer/director Maggie Carey. Set in 1993, valedictorian Brandy Klark wants to shed her uptight image before college, so she assembles a to do list of all the “activities” she missed out on in high school. Quickly realizing that she’s way out of her depth, Brandy solicits her best friends, older sister and burnt-out boss for their help and advice. If the group is going to complete the list by September they’ll need plenty of imagination and very open minds.
This is a romantic comedy full of raucous moments and fresh ideas and hilarious gags. Many actors have strong comic performances and a decent script so It was incredibly sex positive and you can take it as a good teenagers guide and sometimes as a viewer needs plenty of imagination and very open mind. It has good sequel scenes and photography. Even the plot is a little generic and predictable, if you grew up in the 90s, lots of awesome references would be seen here. Two thumbs up for this incredible movie.
Huge Jackman will work again in The Wolverine
By Galatview
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Before he gets too old or tired of the role Huge Jackman works, with James Mangold in negotiations to write the treatment of the new version of The Wolverine The fast-healing mutant will rejoin his “X-Men” teammates in next summer’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” which brings director Bryan Singer back to the franchise. Hopefully this movie will have the same success as the last versions.
