Drama
A new Evil Dead comes with The Damned
By Jenny Alvarez
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The Damned is a movie with certain possessive haunter. The story begins with an American (Facinelli), widowed from his Colombia-born wife, who flies to Bogota with his new fiancée (Myles) to retrieve his rebellious teenage daughter Jill (Ramos). After a car accident leaves them stranded in a rundown isolated inn, they discover the old innkeeper has locked a young girl in the basement and their decision to set her free has unintended consequences. Even the plot and sequences of each scene is very predictable, it has many elements so visually is sickening and scared and the characters can’t go anywhere without being haunted, kidnapped, lost, or attacked. The purpose of scares is very well structured with some dialogues that are helped with an old spooky house. Definitely the cast is really talented where Nathalia Ramos is a part of it. She’s an amazing actress and Peter Facinelli is a great actor as well and the spectator will enjoy it during August in many movie theaters in USA.
The Maid’s Room is a great domestic thriller
By Jenny Alvarez
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Drina is an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in maid to the Crawford’s, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid home in the Hamptons. But the Crawfords spend most of their time in the city, but their teenage son, Brandon, who is starting Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must look after him and his spoiled friends. Since the maid’s room is next to the garage, Drina can’t help noticing when Brandon returns late one night, noisily and obviously drunk.
Then Brandon showed up unexpectedly from college and Drina witnesses him committing a horrible crime. Drina knows that if she reports Brandon she’ll lose her job, and the Crawfords show the dark side of family loyalty by closing ranks and insinuating that they will do whatever it takes to protect him. In this case the situation is intoxicating, and it also places her in far more danger than she imagines.
The Maid’s Room is a psychological thriller that explores the complex relationships between truth and justice, hubris and power, wealth and fear and the most interesting part is that topics like immigration and domestic servitude are related to Dina as a good sample of lack of value as an individual and as worker in USA. It has an intriguing plot with certain violence but very well structured dialogues and characters. In an interview for GalaTView Paula Garcés from Colombia said: “This movie is very well written but I never have played a character like Drina because is a film full of suspense and horror. Psychologically makes you think deeply about a situation similar to the Drina’s in which you don’t know what to do so I wanted to take the opportunity with this kind of role. “
Definitively a great movie you can’t miss to see for a perfect weekend with your friends or beloved people.
Gabrielle is pure woman, full of sincerity
By Jenny Alvarez
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A well structure film comes with special needs actors with the other cast members and music is part of the story. It is a simple love story: girl meets boy, girl likes boy, girl kisses boy but this girl has some disabilities. Like all young women, Gabrielle wants her independence, but of course her situation is exceptional. When she falls in love with a similarly challenged young man in her choir, she discovers that both the families and the social workers are alarmed. What would be her destination and how would you solve it in a situation like this? Definitely is a high quality French-Canadian film which makes it original, with great actors and script of a reality as society cannot deny and Gabrielle must still confront other people’s prejudices as well as her own limitations in the hope of experiencing a love far from the “ordinary”. From the Director Louise Archambault and a great cast Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Alexandre Landry, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin. This movie makes you to think and appreciate the important things you have in life. It’s highly recommended and you can see it in your favorite movie theaters from July 4th in LA.
An upcoming summer drama “The Night Shift” will get your attention
By Jenny Alvarez
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Who would not like to have a group of handsome doctors around before a surgical operation? Well for this coming summer a group of Army doctors return to work on the night shift at a hospital in San Antonio, particularly adrenaline junkie TC Callahan (Eoin Macken, “Merlin”). After three grueling tours of duty in Afghanistan, TC is about to learn that his toughest battles will be fought right here at home.
He and his irreverent team of late-night docs, including his best friend Topher (Ken Leung, “Lost”) and protégé Drew (Brendan Fehr, “Roswell”), know how to let off steam with the casual prank or two, but when lives are at stake, they are all business.
This action-packed medical drama features a strong ensemble cast including two wonderful Latino actors, Freddy Rodriguez, whom you may remember from “Six Feet Under,” and Daniella Alonso, who recently starred in our suspenseful drama “Revolution.”
The entire cast, including Eoin Macken, Jill Flint,Ken Leung, Brendan Fehr, Jeananne Goossen, JR Lemon and Robert Bailey Jr. as well as Freddy and Daniella Alonso. Definitely, is a super drama when the day ends, their work begins and the characters work well who are involved in topics such as homosexuality, passion, bravery for some facts that some characters have to face and betrayal. The risk of death and stressful relationships and social life can suffer, too because is not the Grey’s first season as many think is much better due this drama is full of cool’ doctors being fun and spontaneous with hysterical and dramatic moments that make you want to watch them at the Night Shift.
CBS doesn't launch more midseason shows
By GalaTView Staff
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CBS cancelled some shows such as “Crazy Ones,’ ‘Intelligence,’ “Midseason” ,“Comedies”,”Intelligence” this last one is not returning despite of the plot twists of people from American military getting in a good hero’s way and “Hostages” will air the whole drama. “The Mentalist” is coming back as a great show.
The rails involve an outlandish thriller for “Last Passenger”
By Jenny Alvarez
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Lewis Shaler (Dougray Scott) is an overworked doctor and devoted single dad heading home with his young son Max on the last train from London. When he strikes up a conversation with a beautiful and flirtatious stranger (Kara Tointon), Lewis believes life is finally looking up. But events then take a dark turn when Lewis discovers the guard has mysteriously vanished and the brakes have been sabotaged. Unknown to the handful of remaining passengers, a vengeful sociopath has taken control of the train and is hell-bent on crashing it, taking his passengers with him to the grave.
As the speeding locomotive ploughs through stations and level crossings, the body count rises and panic turns to terror. Lewis realizes that the police are powerless to stop the diesel-powered ‘slammer’ train, and the desperate passengers must find their own way out of this nightmare. Lewis takes the lead in a series of increasingly perilous missions to stop the train before the driver can realize his dark plan.
Last Passenger is a kinetic thriller with melding suspense, action with great performances with great credibility of the situation. It has a well structured dialogues and a well-worn plot with some scenes full of tense and explosive action. Besides in one hour, 36 minutes your predictions will fail when Scott and Tointon make for a decent lead couple, and the film does eventually give some depth to Goldberg’s Jan and David Schofield’s Peter, although for the bulk of the running time they are relegated to annoying cardboard cutouts. Definitely this film is more focus on survival, not the mechanics of villainy but makes it an exciting thriller anyways.
A especial day At Middleton in DVD
By Jenny Alvarez
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Academy Award® nominees Andy Garcia (Ocean’s 11, City Island) and Vera Farmiga (A&E’s “Bates Motel”, Up in the Air) star as straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers who meet on their children’s campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever. Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”), Spencer Lofranco (Jamesy Boy), Peter Riegert (“Dads”), and Tom Skerritt (“Picket Fences”) also star in this story about what can happen on your first day of college.
Definitely this movie has a good eye for visual composition. Both characters make the fictive Middleton in a very pleasant place in which timelessness of youth is a great element in this story. George and Edith, together are perfectly counterbalanced with humor and heart, with good feelings and celebrate all the different life stages full of hope and new phases. This incredible DVD has special features as an audio commentary with Writer/Director Adam Rodgers, Writer/Producer Glenn German and Producer/Actor Andy Garcia in English subtitles for the Deaf & Hearing impaired and Spanish.
A forbidden love becomes “Breath In” a seductive melodrama
By Jenny Alvarez
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From the Writer/director Drake Doremus works with Felicity Jones a soulful and musical British exchange student Sophie Williams (Jones) comes to New York in search of inspiration. On the surface, Sophie’s host family seems happy enough, but with her arrival to the Reynolds’ Upstate New York home, the private struggles of each family member begin to bubble. In particular, frustrated musician-turned-piano- teacher Keith Reynolds (Guy Pearce) finds long suppressed dreams and desires reignited by Sophie’s talent and inquisitive nature. While Keith’s wife, Megan (Amy Ryan) and daughter, Lauren (breakout talent, Mackenzie Davis) focus on Lauren’s final year of high school, Sophie and Keith are drawn ever closer by their mutual longing for creative expression. Ultimately, Sophie and Keith must confront how much they are willing to sacrifice and what they truly want out of life. The main characters were improvising their dialogue and many times are halting verbal exchanges, half-smiles creating a seductive atmosphere. Innocence, maturity makes a relationship a love affair completely without fireworks due is a prohibited love when Pearce and Jones (both brilliant) when they start to get too close but the big dilemma is if both recognize the dangers ahead. Meanwhile, Jones plays a young woman who seems both fragile and incredibly poised beyond her years, a lethal combination that’s been the downfall of many a married man. Director is at building up the intensity of a scene until the air becomes charged with all the words not being said and the romantic impulses not being acted on. Definitely is a reflect of the lack of sincerity in a fake and unhappy marriage in which both lovers are desperate to believe that neither space, time nor the interferences of others will rupture their bottled passion.
It was a very controlled, well-executed picture in which the flash of passion with great music background which keeps any spectator on the seat without breath.
