In a hotel he is about to buy, a CEO meets a young chef who is a mess but also cooks the best food he has ever tasted. Through her cooking, they connect.
Tag Archives: Drama
The Icarus Line Must Die (2017) [Nonplussed Fest 2017]
In Los Angeles, being a musician is difficult. Joe Cardamone of The Icarus Line is trying to survive as well as keep his musical dream alive through ups and downs, hardships and joys.
Love at First Child (Ange et Gabrielle) (2015)
Gabrielle’s daughter has gotten pregnant at 17, this leads her to meet Ange, the potential grandfather and want to make him care as well as his estranged son.
Jane (2016) [New York Asian Film Festival 2017]
On the fringes of society, a runaway finds solace and safety in living with a transgender woman named Jane and her makeshift family. There, she finds support and other things families often provide.
L’Argent (Money) (1983): Criterion Collection [Blu-Ray]
It’s utterly amazing what one small gesture can do to affect another person’s life. “L’Argent” isn’t so much a crime drama, though it does involve a crime, but it’s more a tale about how every choice creates a ripple, that have an important affect. Director Robert Bresson takes the first part of Leo Tolstoy’s posthumously published 1911 novella “The Forged Coupon” and uses it for the basis of a story about the downfall of various people, all the hand of a forged piece of currency.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Director Jon Watts handles the element of Peter Parker’s life that the previous “Spider-Man” iterations didn’t, offering a compelling coming of age high school drama, whose main character is a super powered being trying to live up to impossible standards. When we meet Peter Parker, he’s a typical teenager vlogging his experience in “Civil War” where he brushed up against a slew of heavy hitting superheroes in an effort to help Tony Stark. When the movie begins Peter is returned to Queens to go back to being just a teenager who happens to be Spider-Man. Peter is a young man always trying to do what’s right and noble, he’s the true underdog of the Marvel Universe.
12 Feet Deep: Trapped Sisters (2017)
At eighty five minutes in length, “12 Feet Deep” has a dilemma it can never seem to get past. It sets up a premise that is only able to keep up momentum for forty minutes. The next forty five is very reliant on a ham fisted and hackneyed plot device. What the writers pose as a crisis of conscience and a woman reflecting on someone similar to herself instead feels like a desperate means of stretching a movie that could easily have been under an hour without the goofy filler. The movie could have easily shrunk down to twenty five minutes if our characters ever acted rationally. “12 Feet Deep” is another attempt at a survival thriller where characters are marooned in a very monotonous spot and have no means of escaping. Rather than being a white knuckle fight like “Frozen,” it instead becomes about people just making things more difficult than they have to be.