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Intergenerational stories told through books and film – especially those involving touching interactions between grandparents and grandchildren – are longtime family favorites beloved for their inspiration, endearment and exploration of significant life lessons. One popular offering in this vein is The Summer Book, a 1972 novel by Swedish-Finnish author Tove Jansson, the foundation for this latest cinematic project from director Charlie McDowell. This fictional tale, based on members of Jansson’s own family, tells the story of a recently widowed father (Anders Danielsen Lie) who spends the sum…

Such a **Great Comedy Movie something very different by Aamirkhan Productions**. **Excellent Direction, Superb rocking Mr. Perfectionist AamirKhan (DON), Virdas (Khatarnak Jasoos), Mona Singh as usual the unique personality and also the cute little Mona Singh is rocking with her cute smartness.** Now every time I eat Cutlet; I laugh and remember MAMA :) While drinking Tea in plate, I remember Agent Virdas :) Overall PET Pakadkar Haste Haste Movie Khatam !!!…

In one of the many memorable lines from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (1982), Dr. David Marcus (Merritt Butrick) echoes a quote once uttered by his father, Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner), that “how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.” A despondent Kirk, who was in the throes of grief over the loss of his best friend at the time, dismissively responds by chalking up the sentiment to “just words.” But, despite Kirk’s indifferent reply, his insightful observation speaks volumes, especially for those who are staring down the prospect of their own demise. And that’…

Now I know that polar bears usually prefer to be solitary, but this gorgeously crafted animation is at times just plain sad. A bear is wandering it’s icy homeland looking for some company. With winter looming, most sensible critters like the geese have skedaddled and the orca are a bit wary of letting it swim with their calf. Luckily, it stumbles upon a pile of snow that just happens to resemble another bear, and that spawns an idea. A flexible and constantly changing idea at that, and they are able to share the winter together without it’s friend making any demands on the limited food supply!…

I've got to say that C. Aubrey Smith ("Col. Nielsen") steals this for me as the Scotland Yard bigwig who is constantly being harassed by private eye “Drummond” (Ronald Colman] - he has the cantankerous old codger down to a tee! Why is he being harassed? Well that's because “Drummond”, on his way home from the wedding reception of loyal sidekick "Algy" (Charles Butterworth) fleetingly bumps into "Lola" (Loretta Young). Then he gets lost in the thick London fog before seeking a bit of shelter in a grand house on Rodney Square - only to find the door open and a body on the couch... He races to fi…

Well it certainly wasn’t sponsored by Colgate. Indeed, that is probably just about as illegal in this French society as Semtex. Kissing isn’t even mentionable let alone do-able, and sales in garlic chewing gum are rocketing. Every morning before she enters her plush department store for work, “Malaise” (Luàna Bajrami) has to breathe on the face of a security guard on the staff entrance (so heaven only knows how long he lasted before he keeled over from the effects of halitosis or, indeed, any flu bug). Her job was really just to ply the exclusive clientele with champagne but one day she encoun…

When there’s a mix up at the job centre, “Lars” (Martin Buch) finds himself accidentally given the ID of a Pakistani immigrant to Denmark, and assigned compulsory Danish lessons. Oddly enough, he is already quite fluent in his native language but no amount of calling is going to get him excused from his course. Then he discovers that his school friend “Ida” (Camilla Bendix) - whom he barely remembers - is the teacher and if he doesn’t show up, then her work will get canned and she fired. Keen to be helpful, he dons a black wig and moustache and turns up pretending to be “El-Hassan”. Now with a…

“Donnelly” (Brendan Gleeson) isn’t having a good day. He has just left his deceased wife in hospital and is getting the train home when he sits across from a young lad (Rúaidhri Conroy) who’s a bit free with his language and is, as my gran used to say, a little pass remarkable. His targets are a couple who board at the next stop and who don’t look very happy. It turns out that she (Aisling O’Sullivan) and her husband (David Wilmot) have had some fairly traumatic news of their own, and swiftly the smart-mouthed kid’s provocative comments lead to the first of a couple of tragic events on a journ…

Do you remember those Children’s Film Foundation films made in the 1960s? Well this is very much in that vein as we follow the adventures of “Charlie” (Priya-Rose Brookwell). With her mum having pretty much abandoned her for a career in California, she has been taken out of her care home and now lives with her struggling aunt “Dinah” (Golda Rosheuvel) on her farm. When the youngster realises that the bailiffs are not far away, she decides that the best way to help is to win the local pumpkin growing competition - and it’s prize of £100,000. Though she does seem to have some ability to commune …

Visually, this reminded me a little of “Field of Dreams” (1989) meets “The Waltons” with lots of soft-focus photography and a score from Alan Silvestri that I doubt even he can recall. It’s about a tightly-knit and poor American farming family who find that elder son “Pete” (Ben Allison) wants to volunteer to sign-up following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite reservations from his dad, off he sets to Memphis on the bus leaving his collection of bird's eggs in the care of his younger brother “Willie” (Jonathan Furr). Now this young lad dotes a bit on his sibling and swiftly decides …