Review of Goodbye Lenin

Goodbye Lenin (2003) Summary The young man grew up in East Germany. His mother had a heart attack just when East Germans were protesting which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. She then went into coma for eight months. She missed all of the changes during that time. So the son decided to [...]

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Review of Ushpizin

Review of Ushpizin Summary: In Jerusalem, Moshe was once a secular Jew, who found faith in God, by becoming an Orthodox Jew. Moshe becomes broke and asks for money from yeshiva charitable fund. He is turned down since the funds have depleted. He and his wife, Mali, prays for a miracle. Sukkoth is a Jewish [...]

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Review of Original Sin

Original Sin (2001) Summary A man from Havana, Cuba meets his mail-order bride from Wilmington, Delaware. The bride turns out to be an actress pretending to be her. The real bride was murdered. The man doesn’t know about it until she runs away with his money. He finds her and brings her back. The private [...]

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Review of Proof

Summary: “The Proof” (2005) was directed by John Maddon. Gywenth Paltrow played Catherine, the daughter of the famous but disturbed mathematics professor in Chicago. The movie began on Catherine’s 27th birthday. Her father (Anthony Hopkins) just died of aneurysm a few days before. She lived with him for five years, and took care of him. [...]

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy

I’ve seen all three Pirates movies this week. I planned to watch the third one at the movie theatre, since it was open captioned. My friends and colleagues informed me that I need to watch the first two in order to understand the third movie. Luckily, I was able to watch the first movie on [...]

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Review of Y Tu Mamá También

Summary: Julio and his friend, Tenoch, were making plans for the summer. Julio is from the lower class; Tenoch’s father has a position with the Mexican government. They were into drugs and booze. At the wedding, they met a woman, Luisa, wife of Tenoch’s cousin. She joined them on a road trip to a made [...]

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Review of Dreamcatcher

I recently got “Dreamcatcher” in the mail from Blockbuster.com. Somehow that movie got into my queue. I am not a fan of Stephen King, nor will I ever be. (Sorry Stephen King fans!) I watched the movie anyway. I never read any of his horror books; I have started to read the Dark Towers series. [...]

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The Brothers Grimm

Last night, I saw “The Brothers Grimm,” a Terry Gilliam movie. First of all, I’m quite impressed with the cinematography. The way they filmed it makes you feel like you’re there with the brothers. Angles and camera sweeps are “realistic”, especially in the scene of The Red Riding Hood. The colors in the setting are [...]

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