“Sometimes, the wrong train will get you to the right station.” These yearning words of wisdom spoken so matter-of-factly by Ila (Nimrat Kaur – One Night With the King), a lonely yet hopeful housewife in Ritesh Batra’s directorial debut, The Lunchbox, quite simply the best movie through the first eight months of 2014. I am uncertain if this movie will be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Academy Award. I hope it will be so that more people will know about it. If it is not, I am not sure I would have ever known about it, let alone see it, if not recommended by my friend David. It further reinforces my appreciation for movie recommendations.Continue reading The Lunchbox (2014)
Not only should 2013’s Blue Is The Warmest Color been nominated for a 2013 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but if you are judging by all of the standards on how the Academy usually selects its films, I think that it also should have been one of the nominations for Best Picture that year. Despite some lousy press associated after the release of this film, which I will discuss in this review, this movie might be the honest and most real movie of the year. This is a film that most people have never seen, and most people will never see. You are not alone if you have never heard of this movie. It amassed just $2.2 million domestically, and its NC-17 rating kept it out of most theaters. However, this movie is just as, if not more important, as 2012’s 
It would be an understatement to say that Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Departed) killed it in 2013. Before his Academy Award-nominating role as Jordan Belfort in 
It is unfortunate that 
The Spectacular Now was one of those movies that, before watching it, I thought I was going to be stupid, then I thought I would love it, and ultimately wouldn’t know how I would feel about it until its conclusion. This was based on the movie’s trailer. Then as I began watching the movie, I thought the same things. Had I seen this exact movie before? Probably. Was it going to be filled with cliche after cliche after cliche? Most definitely. Was there going to be some sort of twist or reaction to an event that would separate it from the other movies in this genre that I had seen before? I hoped so. Was the acting good enough and the characters believable for me to think I was part of a real story and not just watching a melodrama played on the screen? Probably not. With all of those things said, it’s a cute little film that I recommend watching, especially if you are in the 17-22-year-old range.