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| Slick's Flick Picks |
Bet you can't say it quickly three times!
Worth Renting, English, N-Z
| I never really understood the story of Henry the XIII and the impetus for the Anglican Church until I saw this movie. Nuf said. Rated PG-13. |
| This film brings the globalized debate over immigration down to a personal level. The lives of three illegal immigrants from two nations and a aimless, middle-aged university prof suddenly collide, with unforeseen, sudden and profound changes. Rated PG-13. |
| Growing older? Never fear. This fun documentary of a senior-citizens chorus is "Northampton, MA, meets the Buena Vista Social Club." But instead of nursing-home standards, these spunky singers (aged 72-92) are singing the Talking Heads, James Brown, etc. Rated PG. |
| This very entertaining film with a long list of awards is about friendship, loyalty and familial love via the film-making efforts of two British boys (both first time actors) in the 1980s. Rated PG-13. |
| Wickedly funny and thought-provoking. Believers will need an open mind to watch. This film features comedian Bill Maher (born of a Jewish mother and Catholic father and raised in the latter tradition), and analyzes some of the nonsensical elements of the three Abramhamic religions (and Scientology), taking no prisoners along the way. Rated R. |
| This adaptation of the like-titled book by Sue Monk Kidd repeatedly pushes every emotional button we've got. It's depiction of Southern race relations in the 1960s resonated with me as we're about to elect our first black president, with a Muslim name no less. Rated PG13. |
| As I watched the characters in this film suffocate under the confines and expectations of 'burb life in the '50s, I kept feeling lucky to have been born a generation later, to have gotten an education that allowed me the freedom that they lacked and to live in an urban neighborhood. Rated R. |
| Based on a novel of the same title, albeit in German, Der Vorleser, this Holocaust film examines two characters of different generations, and their decisions about when they kept secrets or told the truth. (I'm distracted when movies' characters are speaking English out of character; at least in this one, everyone's English has a German accent.) Rated R. |
| A sometimes difficult to watch story about a man not always in touch with reality and his simultaneous relationships with two women, one of whom is more together than the other (yet also in two relationship, with a married man). Rated R. |
| An intense portrayal of high-stakes investigative journalism that was fairly realistic (even if not many real reporters would risk their lives as much as these two did). The contemporary pressures to be the first to break the story and to sell papers are layered atop of the predictable good-guys versus bad-guys tensions with unpredictable twists and turns. Rated R. |
| A touching film, based on the true story about LA Times reporter Steve Lopez's efforts to help Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Jr, a child prodigy cellist sidelined by mental illness. As a former foster mom, I identified with Lopez's evolving hopes for and acceptance of Ayers. PG-13. |
| I must say that I enjoyed my first Pixar and my first 3D film! The attention to visual and character detail, even in the dogs, is entertaining. The humor appeals to both grown-ups and kids. And the film also manages to be touching at times. The 3D glasses sometimes made me think that I could just reach out and touch objects. PG. Village 8 and Green Tree. |
| Pirate Radio, aka The Boat that Rocked |
| An entertaining and fairly irreverent documentary about the illegal efforts of a rag-tag bunch of radioheads to play rock-and-roll for British audiences and the British government's efforts to stop them. Rated R. |
| One of the most powerful movies that I've seen in a while. Based on the novel, "Push," by Sapphire, about how a teenager from a very troubled broken family survives and overcomes the odds stacked against her. Rated R. Baxter and other local theaters. |
| As in the Queen of England, in her earliest years on the throne and "her enduring romance with Prince Albert I." Rated PG. Tinseltown. |