Director: Thomas Farone Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Chris Penn, Elisabeth Rohm, Tony Danza, Frank Whaley, Jamie Harrold, Lily Rabe, Leo Burmester, Federico Castelluccio, Kent King Tom (Anthony Michael Hall, “The Dead Zone”) owns a successful construction company and seems to have the perfect life: a gorgeous house, plenty of respect, and a beautiful wife who’s […]
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The story of the boy who runs away to join the circus is an old one, but how about the girl who ran away to join the pro-wrestling tour?
Read more →3/11, 2:45 PM Camera 12 Peter Stormare (“Fargo”) is almost unrecognizable in this character-driven film. He plays Walter, a once-violent, now born-again police chief in a small Mennonite town in Ontario. When a woman’s body is found, his new life is at risk — the prime suspect is the new squeeze of his ex-girlfriend, an […]
Read more →3/11, 12:30 PM Camera 12 Some Cinequest movies are likely to provoke either love or hate, and “New York Decalogue” is one of those. This is a quiet film, mostly without dialog, which paints brief but revealing portraits of several very different New Yorkers whose lives are more interconnected than is obvious at first. I […]
Read more →3/3/2011 7:15 PM, Camera 12 3/6/2011 1:15 PM, Camera 12 3/7/2011 2:00 PM, Camera 12 Even setting aside the tired “ooooh, a bisexual serial killer!” cliche it revolves around, “A Kiss and a Promise” is a disappointing film. It follows the escapades of the outwardly meek but sociopoathic David, his fiery and masochistic wife Samantha, […]
Read more →3/3 12:00 PM, Camera 12 3/10 9:45 PM, California Theatre 3/12 7:30 PM, Camera 12 This strange Dutch film follows a young woman’s descent into madness following the birth of her first child. The first half or so of the film feels like a horror movie as Lea lets her handsome husband talk her into […]
Read more →3/4 11:59 PM, Camera 12 3/8 9:30 PM, Camera 12 3/11 5:00 PM, Camera 12 “Bad Behavior” is the first film from Australian director Joseph Sims, and I will definitely be keeping my eyes peeled for more work from him. This Tarantino-esque, jubilantly vicious flick follows a pair of psychotic siblings as they murder their […]
Read more →3/5 4:30 PM, Camera 12 3/6 9:00 PM, Camera 12 3/8 4:15 PM, Camera 12 Every year there are a few Cinequest films I don’t care for, but it’s rare that I find one excruciating to sit through. “The Blind” is one of those few. It’s hard to tell if the acting is universally flat […]
Read more →3/6, 10:00 PM Camera 12 3/8, 12:00 PM Camera 12 3/11, 4:30 PM Camera 12 A chance meeting leads to a date between Zoli and Eszti, which they both eventually have to admit was a bad idea. Once the weight of trying to impress each other is off their shoulders, they can start to truly […]
Read more →3/4, 9:30 PM San Jose Repertory Theatre 3/6, 6:45 PM Camera 12 3/11, 12:30 PM Camera 12 Jacob’s life is simple. He works nights as a security guard and spends days inside his lightproofed apartment painting the sun he can never see because of his skin disorder. As he nears his twenty-fifth birthday, though, things […]
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