August 2017
My viewing log. All the films (listed at IMDb) I've seen during this month.
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
We Will (Laura Nagy, 2016, sh) - 8/10 (R)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
We Will (Laura Nagy, 2016, sh) - 8/10 (R)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
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- DirectorBrian GilbertStarsJudge ReinholdFred SavageCorinne BohrerDivorced executive Marshall and his 11-year-old son Charlie casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers Marshall's mind to Charlie's body and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.TV, 8/1/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorBartabasStarsSpartak FedotovIgor GotesmanA Yakut shaman and a Muscovite violinist escape a Soviet gulag on horseback. The shaman, Anatolia, promises to guide Dimitri, but Tolia is shot during the escape and dies. His spirit seems to guide Dimitri as the musician begins the arduous journey home across the snowbound taiga. In towns and settlements, Tolia's name seems magic, securing help for Dimitri. The horse, too, becomes savior and companion. When Dimitri finally reaches Irkutsk, he sells the horse to a Gypsy for train fare. While waiting overnight for the train, he meets a woman and they go dancing. After sex, in the dark of a freezing night, Dimitri makes a decision. The music of Tolia's trump is in his soul.TV, 8/1/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorBarbet SchroederStarsMarthe KellerMax RiemeltBruno GanzJo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.TV, 8/1/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsIrdens ExantusCaroline TrudelPatrick HuardAn idealistic young Haitian travels to rural Quebec to intern for an independent Member of Parliament when a national debate erupts that finds the MP holding the tie-breaking vote.TV, 8/1/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorArturo Ruiz SerranoStarsJoan Carles SuauEric FrancésMonika KowalskaTwo Spanish soldiers are guarding an outpost during wartime and discover a Polish woman, hurt and unconscious. They nurse her back to health and must decide if they should turn her in to their commanders or keep her hidden.TV, 8/1/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorTom HollandStarsCatherine HicksChris SarandonAlex VincentA struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.TV, 8/1/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsDespina TomazaniDora MasklavanouTakis MoshosA band of handsome Athenian pariahs waiting for a miracle have a fateful encounter with the ever-present state instead. And as the law's suffocating stranglehold tightens around them, the shotguns have the final say.OL, 8/2/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsClara LagoDani RoviraCarmen MachiRafael, a Sevillian who has never left Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women whom he has ever known.TV, 8/2/17. 7.5/10 (R).
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Hilarious! Sadly, it loses the pace near the very end. Still, a gem! - DirectorDave MeyersStarsSean BeanSophia BushZachary KnightonA couple from college get caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopathic hitchhiker and the police after witnessing a murder and being framed.TV, 8/2/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorArgyris PapadimitropoulosStarsMakis PapadimitriouElli TringouHara KotsaliOn a hedonistic Greek island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends.TV, 8/4/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorBranko GapoStarsJanez VrhovecDimitar GesovskiPetar PrlickoIn 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the emigrants for their own political purposes. A number of decent freedom fighters were eliminated. The victim of one of the assassins in Sofia was Gjorche Petrov. His assassin is a young boy who doesn't even know that he is shooting dead the man who is one of the last real fighters for the freedom of Macedonia. By discovering that he has been unknowingly involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization and has been used for an execution of this vile act, it means the death sentence for the young boy.Orig. title: Denovi na iskušenie.
TV, 8/4/17. 7/10 (FF). - DirectorPaul GoldmanStarsJoel EdgertonRose ByrneDennis HopperBased on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.TV, 8/4/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorTony AloupisStarsEvan PetersJuno TempleChristine LahtiA teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.TV, 8/4/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsHan Yeo-reumSeo Ji-seokJeon Gook-hwanOn a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard...TV, 8/4/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorLawrence GutermanStarsAlec BaldwinTobey MaguireJeff GoldblumA look at the top-secret, high-tech espionage war going on between cats and dogs, of which their human owners are blissfully unaware.TV, 8/5/17. 4.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorDavid LoweryStarsBryce Dallas HowardRobert RedfordOakes FegleyThe adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon.TV, 8/5/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsSpencer TracyVan JohnsonRobert WalkerIn the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.TV, 8/5/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJoe MantegnaBen KingsleyMax PomerancA prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.TV, 8/5/17. 7/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'Innocent Moves' in my country (on Cinemax). - DirectorRob ReinerStarsMichael DouglasDiane KeatonSterling JerinsA self-absorbed realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he's suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home.TV, 8/5/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorDick MaasStarsHuub StapelNelly FrijdaRené van 't HofThe mayor of Zonnedael sees a chance to get rid of the Flodder family and sends them for an international exchange to New York.TV, 8/5/17. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsWilliam HoldenGrace KellyFredric MarchSet during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.TV, 8/6/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsBrando PacittoMatilda Anna Ingrid LutzTaylor FreyA gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.TV, 8/6/17. 7/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'Summertime' in my country (on Cinemax 2). - DirectorAsli ÖzgeStarsSebastian HülkJulia JentschHanns ZischlerKarsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.TV, 8/6/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorSergio MachadoStarsLázaro RamosKaique de JesusElzio VieiraAfter failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon finds his world transformed by the power of music and friendships formed with his pupils.TV, 8/6/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorKelly Fremon CraigStarsHailee SteinfeldHaley Lu RichardsonBlake JennerHigh-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.TV, 8/6/17. 7/10 (FF).