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This is a bleak film about a family living in the aftermath of what appears to be the end of the world.

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This biography of Aaliyah provides detailed information about Friends and family remember the short, remarkable life of music and film's Aaliyah who died on August 25th, 2001.

On a week where the recent Marvel superhero film is also being released, Hacksaw Ridge is the real superhero film; one about a deeply religious, family man, pacifist that saved numerous lives without ever touching his rifle

That makes the film a pretty straightforward morality tale about a man, who actually does have a soul, weighing the price of taking advantage of people, who are just like him, against the need to provide for his family, who are living in a hotel with a group of other people who have been evicted from their own homes.

Heder scored better on all fronts by voicing Reginald «Skull» Skulinski in the Steven Spielberg - produced, CG - animated family film Monster House, a spooky and funny romp about a home that begins devouring trick - or - treaters, and the three youngsters who set out to stop it.The November 2006 release School for Scoundrels returned Heder to live - action material.

I went into this film knowing that it was going to be a visual marvel, hoping that I would be able to understand, at least on an intuitive level, what Malick was communicating to us about life, nature, grace, family, etc..

The line isn't exactly «Call me Ishmael» or «Happy families are all alike», but this first line of what was published in 1937 as a children's book began what has proved to be a literary phenomenon, an alternative religion, an endless invitation to exegesis and a major industry that has led to an immensely successful trilogy of books and films about life in Middle - earth.

Hansen - Love's films (four features thus far) are «about» many things — first love, family life, suicide, drug addiction — but the plot is not paramount.

This film truly is about friendship, family, and life in general.

If «The Breadwinner» were a live - action film, it would be virtually unbearable to watch, but as animation, it's not only possible, but somehow inspiring to immerse oneself in this pared - down adaptation of Deborah Ellis» well - regarded young - adult novel, about an 11 - year - old girl who must step up and care for her family after the Taliban raids her home and arrests her father (hence the title).

McEwan's understandable dedication to the source material also leads to some pushy, unnecessary inclusions, from a scene that dramatizes Edward's apparent «coarseness» in a way that's in direct opposition to everything else we've learned about the character, to a heartbreaking insight into Florence's family life that should either be much bigger or totally excised from the film.

Not much happens in The Midwife, but its depth and texture make this a moving film about families, time passing and shared history — and the handful of scenes in the maternity unit where Claire works, five or six little miracles of birth, somehow add to its sense of a life as mysterious and precious.

About a third of the film is made up of intermittent flashbacks to war - time when Maria was a child living in her well - heeled family's house in Vienna that the Nazis eventually pillage.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

«Lamb,» director Yared Zeleke's debut feature film about a young boy named Ephraïm, who must live with faraway family...

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

Nicole Holofcener's Please Give is a heart - warming, subtle film about the lives of two very different New York families.

A sensitive drama about a hidden subculture, this film is sometimes difficult to watch as its naturalistic approach reveals chilling details about a Turkish family living in Austria.

Such as it is, American is less about his professional career than his personal life, insofar as one can separate the two when considering so personally honest and hardworking a performer, and sans pandering to docu - hungry audiences, the film works equally well as an introduction for newcomers, a family reunion for longtime fans, and a miniature greatest - hits package for both.

For a documentary about (visual) memory the dominant theme resonating is strangely that of absence: Mick's trips away from the family, Mick's family not at his wedding, Mick's self isolation later in life, and, most, poignantly, the absence of the elusive Mick in his own films, a constant elided «other» as the filmmaker behind the camera.

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

Like his earlier shorts, Distant Voices was an autobiographical film about growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s, beautiful but somber and almost heartbreaking in its portrait of a family living in fear of its angry, alcoholic father.

That film is The Goonies, the 1985 comedy adventure film directed by Richard Donner, about a group of young friends who try to beat a family of criminals to a hidden pirate treasure to help save the neighborhood where they all live from being torn down and turned into a golf course.

That's a beautiful sentiment that is carried over to this wondrous and heartwarming movie, a rare feel - good live - action film for the whole family that is about who we are on the inside, a sweet story with a strong message about doing the right thing.

In this clip, Friedberg focuses on the architecture, specifically how the film's three homes were «cast» and what the style and architectural era of each of them say about the family who lives in it.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

But the film heads from this starting point not into another exploration of arrested development, but instead into a wistful family drama about two grown brothers who've never fully recovered from the loss of their father, and their surviving parent, a woman whose life has been stripped of wonder.

Emma Fuhrmann: The film is about Morgan Freeman's character Monty who moves in next door to where my family lives.

Directed by Jon Favreau («Chef,» «Iron Man,» «Elf»), based on Rudyard Kipling's timeless stories and inspired by Disney's classic animated film, «The Jungle Book» is an all - new live - action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man - cub who's been raised by a family of wolves.

Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home.

Among the film's many surprises, De Palma describes Raising Cain as a «family album,» Home Movies as «stories about my family,» and aspects of Body Double as «stuff I've lived.»

His Best Supporting Actor nod is the sole Oscar nomination for Sean Baker's film about under - privileged families living in a motel on the outskirts of Disneyland.

According to the notoriously incorrect site, the film is about a single mother whom finds that things in her family's life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents.

The story tells the tale of a family of four - inch - tall people, called Borrowers, who live hidden about the humans or beans as they are called in the film.

Discovering him one night when she leaves the family's cave, Guy warns Eep of an impending change, and that is when the true heart of the film kicks in, becoming a funny and heartwarming road trip film about an out of the loop family who discover everything about how to live in the new world.

Crafted over a period of five years in near - complete secrecy, the film falls under the banner of autobiography because it features Polley on camera talking about her own life with members of her real family.

Born and living in Switzerland, Loïc has been annoying his friends and family about films since forever.

Chloé Zhao's first feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, showed the beautiful and difficult life of a young man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; his relationship with his family, his clashes with white men, and his own decisions about his future.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

The Spectacular Now could quite possibly be 2013's Perks of Being A Wallflower because it is without a doubt one of the most realistic films about teenagers, life, and family that I have seen in quite sometime.

The film is as much about Harding's dysfunctional family life as her achievements on ice.

Director Darren Lynn Bousman («Saw II,» «Saw III,» «Saw IV») turns his bloodthirsty lens on the Troma film vaults and comes up with a remake of the studio's gleefully grody 1980 cult classic, about a trio of ex-con brothers who return home from prison, only to discover that their house has a new family living in it.

The film is a sweet, wise, meandering tale about life, love, work and families, and we're never less than a few scenes away from a good meal or drink.

It Comes at Night Rated R for violence, disturbing images, and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89 % Texas filmmaker Trey Edward Shults (Krisha) follows up his huge 2015 SXSW winner with this pseudo horror film about a post-apocalyptic world where husband and father Joel Egerton and family live safely in their well - protected home, hiding from whatever it is out there, until he allows a young family to seek refuge in their hiding spot.

In the Society's most prestigious category, the Buried Treasure, the nominees are: DAVE MADE A MAZE, a unique adventure film about a frustrated artist and his creation; the compelling documentary THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, about an icon of the queer and trans movements; Dee Rees» MUDBOUND, a story of 2 families working the same land in 40s Mississippi; PATTI CAKE$, whose eponymous white lead dreams of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian director.

He talked about what it's like to be part of a famous filmmaking family and still earn recognition on his own terms, the difficult process of shooting Kill Your Darlings that gives the movie an extra spark, how he prepared to play Kerouac at this stage in his life, his character's arc on Boardwalk Empire, American Hustle and the unusual way they shot the film, upcoming projects including an Errol Flynn biopic and a production of Strangers on a Train in London, and more.

While the film exhibits wit and provides a number of hearty laughs, at its core it's a serious drama about life, hope, family, friendship, taking chances and following dreams.