Land, the nondescript and forgettable title of Robin Wright’s directorial debut, has a Clint Eastwood-ish trailer. If you watch any movie directed by Clint Eastwood, it makes it look like it’s a Best Picture nominee. While many of these films earn an Oscar nomination, many more (The 15:17 to Paris, J. Edgar, Hereafter, Changeling, Invictus) not only do not but aren’t even worth a watch. Land is better than those previously mentioned films, but it likely will be just as unmemorable. It is by no means a bad movie. It is, however, a dime-a-dozen movie, and it certainly did not do its enthralling trailer any justice.
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Alien: Covenant (2017)
Ridley Scott’s (Gladiator, The Martian) brainchild franchise proves a few things. First, the Alien series still has legs, its sequels continue evolving, and Scott has no plans to let his baby fall into the wrong hands again. Ridley’s monster first burst onto the screen in 1979’s Alien, a movie that did for space travel what Steven Spielberg’s Jaws did for swimming on beaches. It certainly wasn’t the first movie set on a spaceship. But, if it wasn’t the first horror film set in space, it was undoubtedly the first one we all remembered as the first one. And, just as the tagline of the original movie poster suggests, In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream, nothing can be more accurate as we sit down and prepare ourselves for one of the Alien movies.
A Better Life (2011)
Demian Bichir (most recognized in America for his role as ruthless and corrupt Tijuana mayor Esteban Reyes in the Emmy Award Nominee Showtime series Weeds) is an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Carlos who works as a day worker, landscaping the yards of large yards in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods. He migrated from Mexico some 16 years ago after marrying. His 15-year-old son Luis (Jose Julian) is everything to him after his wife left him to experience a more exciting life in America that Carlos could not provide. A Better Life is exactly what its title suggests: a father trying to give himself and his son a better life.
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