Nightcrawler is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, […]
I Am Sam
I Am Sam makes you laugh, cry, and recoil all at the same time. Perhaps no other film of recent memory has epitomized the shameless sentimentality of Hollywood as succinctly as director and screenwriter Jessie Nelson’s story of a mentally challenged man fighting to retain custody of his 7-year-old daughter. Sam (Sean Penn), who has […]
Temple Grandin
A biopic of Temple Grandin (Claire Dames), an autistic woman who became one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. She overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school, mostly in dealing with […]
Being There
Chance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged man who lives in Washington D.C. He has lived there his whole life. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When the owner of the home he lives in dies, Chance is forced to leave and discovers the outside world for the […]