‘Woman Walks Ahead’ Review: Jessica Chastain Stars in a Paint-By-Numbers Biopic — TIFF
Jessica Chastain aces another strong female role, but the rest of this strange historical Western can’t get its story straight.
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The Zookeeper’s Wife
The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabińska (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński (Johan Heldenbergh of “The Broken Circle Breakdown”), have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her […]
Arthouse Audit: ‘Lion’ and ‘Miss Sloane’ Show Promise
Two crowdpleasers and would-be awards contenders launched well during the crowded holiday fray, against rivals hanging in for the long Oscar haul.
‘Miss Sloane’ Review: Jessica Chastain Is Bulletproof In a Frothy Political Soap Opera About the Other Women In Washington
“Scandal” meets “Michael Clayton,” this wild thriller about the dark art of lobbying might be the political movie the world needs right now.
Miss Sloane
The story of a ruthless lobbyist (Jessica Chastain) who is notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her own career at risk. The thriller pulls back the curtain on how Capitol Hill games are played and won as Sloane faces off against the most influential […]
Zero Dark Thirty
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
The Tree
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Untitled Terrence Malick Film
A romantic drama centered on a man who reconnects with a woman from his hometown after his marriage to a European woman falls apart. [Synopsis Courtesy of IMDb.]
Wilde Salome
Pacino takes us on a journey as he unravels and re-interprets Oscar Wilde’s once banned and most controversial work SALOME, a scintillating tale of lust, greed and one woman’s scorn. Pacino uses an uncanny mix of documentary, fiction and improvisation to get to the root of SALOME. SALOME promises to be a profound vision of religion, politics, violence and sexuality from one of the greatest artists of our time. [Synopsis courtesy of MyFilm]
Texas Killing Fields
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
The Help
Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family’s struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around “the help”; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
The Tree of Life
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
