La Promesse draws on the considerable documentary acumen of its directors, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Rosetta), to prove a revelation in narrative filmmaking. Shot on the outskirts of an industrial city in Belgium, the film follows Igor (Jrmie Rnier), the 15-year-old son of a single parent named Roger (Olivier Gourmet) who rents squalid apartments to recently arrived immigrants, many of them illegal. As Igor struggles to hold down odd jobs while assisting his father in crooked dealings, the Dardenne brothers plunge the audience into the thick of difficult issues--immigration, cultural and racial bias, bureaucratic injustices--without overtly politicizing or diminishing any of their characters. When Igor promises to help a young African woman, he finds he must choose between loyalty to his father and his own conscience. The beauty is in how the Dardenne brothers seem to share in the viewer's curiosity about the film's outcome, having captured a world so charged yet unadorned you feel the surprise of each new scene alongside the directors. An extraordinary film that bears repeated viewings. --Fionn Meade
La Promesse was an incredible movie! Both Jrmie Renier and Olivier Gourmet were amazing! Maybe that's what makes the movie so good.The great cast includes Jrmie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo, Hachemi Haddad, Sophie Leboutte.The movie moves on like a dream and end leaving you wanting for more.
The Santa Clause - Time For Movies To Take A Back Seat
Divorced toy company executive Scott Calvin (Tim Allen of Home Improvement and the Toy Story movies) is pleased to have his son Charlie for Christmas, though the boy himself isn't happy about it. But when Santa Claus accidentally topples off the roof of the house and falls with a thud in the snow, Scott finds himself taking the merry old elf's place and earning new respect in his son's eyes. When the night ends, the reindeer take them to the north pole, and Scott discovers that by donning the fabled red suit, he's inadvertently agreed to become the next Santa Claus. The next morning he wakes up in his own bed and thinks it's all a dream--only Charlie remembers it with crystal clarity. Scott now has to deal with his suspicious ex-wife (Wendy Crewson, Air Force One) and her psychiatrist boyfriend (Judge Reinhold, Beverly Hills Cop), who both think he's playing tricks with Charlie's mind, and also with his own out-of-control body, which is putting on weight and growing a prodigious beard. The Santa Clause probably won't supplant It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street as anyone's favorite holiday film, but it's an enjoyable, straightforward family film, anchored by the affable charisma of Allen. --Bret Fetzer
The Santa Clause is a movie that everyone can enjoy together.This is something not usually seen in movies of this type, so it makes it an unusual, yet pleasant experience.The movie is absolutely stunning and Tim Allen deliver some award winning performances in this movie. I also think Azura Bates was great!
Storytelling is a movie that everyone can enjoy together.This is something not usually seen in movies of this type, so it makes it an unusual, yet pleasant experience.The movie is absolutely stunning and Noah Fleiss deliver some award winning performances in this movie. I also think Paul Giamatti was great!
From Todd Solondz, the critically acclaimed director of Welcome to the Dollhouse comes a film comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation.
The Body Beneath - Watch Any Movie Any Time You Want
The Body Beneath was an incredible movie! Both Gavin Reed and Jackie Skarvellis were amazing! The great cast includes Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis, Berwick Kaler, Susan Heard, Richmond Ross.
He called himself Reverend. His church was lost souls. Prissy preacher Algernon Ford (Gavin Reed) is actually an ancient vampire organizing a family reunion. Despondent over his "deteriorating bloodline," the good Reverend, his hunchback servant and a trio of green-faced bloodsuckers rent Carfax Abbey and, using three of his female descendants, prepares to rebuild the family... Sex and violence courtesy of cult director Andy Milligan, who made some of the most notorious and highly eccentric micro-budget sexploitation and horror films that ever assaulted the public. One of Milligan's best, "The Body Beneath" is presented completely uncut, permeated with lunatic characters, goofy gore, and a disturbing atmosphere of decadence and decay that climaxes with an effectively nightmarish vampire soiree.