Archive for August, 2008

Review: Man Push Cart

Normal Guy 50-Words-Or-Less Plot: A Pakistani immigrant goes through the daily grind. He sells coffee, doughnuts and bagels from his push cart on a corner of Avenue of the Americas in New York City. But there’s more to this story than just a man and his push cart.

Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi), is a widower, Pakistani immigrant [...]

Review: Spellbound

Normal Guy 50-Words-Or-Less Plot: No. This is not the 1945 Hitchcock thriller. The is the 2002 Jeffrey Blitz documentary that follows 8 kids to the 1999 Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington,DC.
This documentary reminded me a bit of “Mad Hot Ballroom” (directed by Marilyn Agrelo, 2005). Instead of following some kids in a school dance [...]

Normal Guy 50-Words-Or-Less Plot: A work-obsessed chef must contend with a staff addition to her kitchen. She also must deal with the recent death
of her sister who made her guardian and sole caregiver for her young and orphaned niece.
This is a remake of a French film titled, “Mostly Martha” and my guess it’s probably not [...]

Review: The Kingdom

Normal Guy 50-Words-Or-Less Plot: FBI counter-terrorism agents deploy to Saudi Arabia after a terrorist attack on the families of American oil workers. Their renegade mission is to find the killers and bring them to justice.

Special Agent Ronald Fluery (JAMIE FOXX) leads a renegade team of counter-terrorism agents into Saudi Arabia to find the killers [...]