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Double review by Vives Anunciacion (unpublished) Two stories about relationships and broken heels and the unusual ways people deal with challenges called the family. In Her Shoes Directed by Curtis Hanson Written by Susannah Grant Based on the novel by Jennifer Weiner Starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Colette, Shirley MacLaine PG13/ 130 minutes 20th Century Fox/ Scott Free Pictures It’s Imelda’s favorite movie, she’s seen it 3500 times! Okay, maybe not. At nearly two and a half hours, In Her Shoes manages to be an engaging resolution story between two characteristically differing sisters who simply can’t live without each other. Rose Feller (Toni Colette) and Maggie Feller (Cameron Diaz) are sisters on the opposite sides of the spectrum. The first is a workaholic lawyer secretly having an affair with here boss, while the latter is the typical blonde party girl who can barely read her letters. The only thing common between the two is their shoe size, but it’s Rose who collects shoes as an emo...

Review by Vives Anunciacion December 14, 2005 Inquirer Libre (English version) King Kong Directed by Peter Jackson Written by Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens Based on the story by Merian Cooper and Edgar Wallace Starring Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Andy Serkis PG 13/ 187minutes Universal Pictures/ Wingnut Films “And now, ladies and gentlemen, before I tell you any more, I'm going to show you the greatest thing your eyes have ever beheld.” – Carl Denham It's said that originals are always the best. But the remake is better this time around. Visceral, visually amazing and surprisingly heartbreaking, King Kong 2005 may very well be the mother of all monster movies. Based on the 1933 original by Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, King Kong tells the story of a gigantic beast forcibly taken from its island kingdom and made into a Broadway attraction in 1933 New York. Jack Black plays obsessed filmmaker-producer Carl Denham, who tricks his crew to shoot an ad...

Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre Joyeux Noël/ Merry Christmas Written and Directed by Christian Carion Starring Benno Fürmann, Diane Kruger, Guillaume Canet PG 13/ 115 minutes Nord-Ouest / Senator Film/ Artemis/ TF1 English Subtitles “War is over, if you want it” - Happy Xmas (War is Over), John Lennon It was known as the Christmas Truce of 1914, a few months into World War 1, when hundreds of French, Scottish and Belgian soldiers left their posts and peacefully mingled with their German opponents on Christmas Day in the northern borders of Flanders, France. Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas) revisits that miraculous moment 90 years ago when goodwill was shared among the weary souls of men. Tenor Nikolaus Sprink (German actor Benno Fürmann) leaves the opera behind when he is drafted to serve the German army. His wife and fellow opera singer Anna Sörensen (played by German-born Diane Kruger, from Troy) abuses her aristocratic title in order to save Sprink from being sent to the tr...

Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre The Exorcism of Emily Rose Directed by Scott Derrickson Written by Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson Starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Carpenter R13 / 119 minutes Columbia pictures/ Screen Gems A rose by any name it’s not – either it’s a supernatural court drama or a trial by horror. The Exorcism of Emily Rose is an intelligently interpreted battle between the realm of the supernatural and the rule of human law. Based on the story of Annelise Michel (the real Emily Rose) of Germany in the 1970s, The Exorcism of Emily Rose focuses on the trial of Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson) who is accused of negligent homicide after performing exorcism on the young girl Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter). Laura Linney plays Father Moore’s ambitious defense lawyer Erin Bruner who turns the trial upside down when she presents elements of the exorcism itself as evidence supporting the priest. Director Scott Derrickson fuses horror and court drama i...