Movie Update

It's been a busy week on the cinematic front. The big afternoon cine-siesta featured District B13, a rousing cops and robbers tale about drug dealers and missing nuclear warheads, community redemption and political corruption and Paris. Produced and directed by the makers of Ong-Bak and Little Miss Sunshine, about a family falling apart but trying desparately to hold themselves to together as the youngest daughter is escorted to a beauty pageant. Greg Kinnear plays the self-motivated failed salesmen, Alan Arkin the heroin snorting grandfather, while Steve Carell takes a turn as America's pre-eminent Proust scholar. The son, adorned in his plain white t-shirts, black and maroon low-top Vans, and love of Nietzsche, reminded us all very much of our very own editor, Elvis Bonaparte, when he was in high school. The usually flighty Toni Collette plays the steady mom, offering support and guidance. Easily one of the best movies we have seen this year.

Other movies that crossed our screens included two Giovanni Ribisi vehicles, I Love Your Work and The Big White, which also featured Robin Williams and Woody Harrelson, as well as Inside Man, which while engaging and thoughful, ultimately offered one to many loose ends to tie up. It must be said however, that Spike Lee continues to impress us in his post-9/11 manifestation.