May not be immediately apparent from all the drollness surrounding FX’s Fargo where she stars as a police detective, but Allison Tolman seems like someone with a sense of humor. Check out her imdb bio, which has an endearing DIY quality to it.
I was expecting a reference to the white flag of surrender at successive away test series, but I never noticed the white dress Dhoni wore in his playing days.
At the Oaks Theater complex in Cupertino, CA.
Check In: Big Eyes (2014) The first two thirds of the movie plays like a Hitchcock thriller. Set in SF in the late 50s, with a nervous Marion Crane-like blonde, who is controlled by her husband like Joan Fontaine in Suspicion, while her identity is slowly stripped away by a devious, obsessive husband like in Spellbound…
Check In: Wild (2014) A potentially new agey trail movie about finding oneself is transcended by brave acting by Witherspoon & Dern, clever editing, Simon & Garfunkle on the soundtrack & scenery that reminds once again the natural beauty we live in. http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt2305051/
Check In: Un témoin dans la ville (1959) Excellent night photography & jazz score liven up crime movie about a killer who is hunted down by taxi drivers. The last third has many similarities to M & Emil and the Detectives. Finale at a zoo is quite impressive, Ventura hiding & owls looking with unblinking eyes…
Check In: Chotushkone (2014) Srijit takes another shot in the movie-in-a-movie genre, but unlike Autograph this is lazy & overlong, filled with caricatures & unnecessary frippery like flashbacks, b&w sequences, multiple characters, songs & red herrings galore. http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt4115752/
Check In: Boyhood (2014) Boyhood. And motherhood, fatherhood & sisterhood. Gimmicks aside (& it is easy to forget these are the same actors seen through the years) this is a deeply felt movie about a single mother & itinerant father raising their children as they circulate through stepfathers, cities & friends. We focus on the boy…
Check In: Almost Famous (2000) Rosy eyed look at how the young & starry eyed get played by the cynical. Crowe asks the right questions, but jumps out of the car before the cliff on this game of chicken. So the movie meanders like a fading solo to a dismal plonk of the guitar string. The…
Check In: Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) Darkly funny & absurdist Georgian satire in the waining days of the USSR, where the party headquarters in Tbilisi is threatened by some mysterious forces. It isn’t the poltergeist but something more insidious- rampant bureaucratism & group think that is causing serious cracks to appear in the party…