IMDb is full of surprises today. Smaller movies are always interesting to research to see where the creators are coming from. Writer/director Greg Mottola was also the director of the vastly superior Superbad, and even three episodes of Arrested Development (and the Squid and the Whale). Quite a range of flavors. This [...]
Tom McCarthy wrote and directed this very personal-feeling story about Walter, a drifting widower (Richard Jenkins) who finds squatters in his NYC apartment and gets intertwined in their lives. It’s an odd premise – a professor wealthy enough to neglect a Manhattan apartment with a hard-working, undocumented couple renting it from the unknown Ivan. [...]
The titular character of Slumdog Millionaire is Jamal Malik (breakout Dev Patel), an Indian Oliver Twist of sorts. He opens and intermittently propels the story from the 2006 present, when he is being tortured by someone’s goons, back to when he was about five years old. We discover through this framing device that [...]
