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3G - A Killer Connection (2013)

There are 4.3 Billion mobile phone users in the world. Every minute 60 thousand "Phantom Calls" are received worldwide. These calls have no known source of origin, no numbers and cannot be traced. Some people believe that these calls are spirits trying to connect to our world! 3G is the nightmarish story of Sam Arora and Sheena, a couple, who become victims of a series of events when Sam buys a 3G enabled second hand phone in Fiji islands while on a holiday. One night they receive a Phantom Call which changes their lives forever. They must face the unbelievable reality that the phone is somehow responsible for all that is happening to them and around them. The only way to stay alive, it seems is to unravel the mystery of the phone. But as the hours burn on, that becomes harder and harder to do. Technology is a part of our lives, what happens when technology wants to take our lives? 3G embodies the horror of a recurring nightmare that draws inspiration from the insecurities of modern life. In spite of all our technology and sophistication, we can't escape the unknown.





Mental (2012)

Barry Moochmore (Anthony LaPaglia) is the Mayor of Dolphin Heads where he pays more attention to his re-election than his troubled wife Shirley (Rebecca Gibney) or his daughters Coral (Lilly Sullivan), Michelle (Malorie O'Neill), Leanne (Nicole Freeman), Kayleen (Chelsea Bennett) and Jane (Bethany Whitmore). All the females feel marginalised and a little mental, and the girls despair at their mother's unconventional behaviour. But when Shirley is sent to 'Wollongong' for a 'holiday', and Barry brings hitchiking Shaz (Toni Collette) into the house, they meet the personification of 'mental' and unconventional - and proud of it. Shez has a secret agenda, but until that is uncovered, the Moochmore family is transformed. Some of their family and neighbours are also caught in the crazy web ... Review by Louise Keller: In P.J. Hogan's Mental, there are brush strokes of genius and dark clouds of overkill in this ambitious film in praise of family and being accepted for who you are. It's been 18 years since Hogan's breakthrough hit Muriel's Wedding which made our hearts soar as we laughed with the characters, and made us weep from its flip-side pathos. It was also Toni Collette's calling card. Who did not embrace her unpopular, overweight Muriel, who loved ABBA songs and who dreamed of getting married? In Mental, all the signs point to Hogan wanting to recreate another Muriel's Wedding. Even his leading lady, Collette is on board, leading the charge in a reality that is surreal and over-the-top. Muriel was set in Porpoise Spit; Mental is in Dolphin Heads and The Sound of Music has replace the obsession for ABBA music. There are laughs but not enough and the moments of pathos do not come naturally. There is no question that Hogan is tackling high risk subject matter in the topic of mental illness and the line that divides humour, bad taste and pathos is a fine one indeed. But let me tell you what I like about Mental: the characters, who are all obsessed by something. There's Liev Schreiber with a fair dinkum Aussie accent as a crazed shark-obsessed theme-park owner and Deborah Mailman with a cheeky grin as the mad-as-a-hatter lesbian. I was delighted to see (and hear) that Anthony LaPaglia can remember how to speak Strine in his guise as an adulterous politician and absent father unable to remember the name of his daughters. Lilly Sullivan is a real find as the impressionable teenage Coral, who works for the theme-park and has a crush on the suitably named guitar-strumming surfie-type Trout (Sam Clark). Beautiful Rebecca Gibney is almost unrecognisable as the overweight, insecure Shirley Moochmore, who has always dreamed of being one of the Von Trapp family (and a credit to Austria) as she sings the songs from the film. Glazed china dolls are the obsession of Shirley's older sister Doris, beautifully played by Caroline Goodall, while Kerry Fox bravely plays Nancy, the cleanliness-obsessed neighbour whose daughter (Hayley Magnus) cannot keep her legs together. The other Moochmore kids are excellent, too. Toni Collette warrants a separate round of applause for her commitment to Shaz, the pot-smoking hitchhiker with the grandiose notion of avenging the perpetually humiliated. Arriving on the scene with her dog Ripper (the scene in which Ripper buries his nose between Shirley's legs is a match for the dog's name), Shaz is a larger than life creation intent on changing not only her destiny but that of those around her. Crashing into the Moochmore world of chaos, Shaz brings with her a grandiose notion that it is everyone else who is 'mental'; she and the Moochores represent the next step of human evolution - that of perfection. It is the tone and the touch that suffer. Instead of a light touch, Hogan makes his point too obviously, which in turn lessens the impact and the humour. The Sound of Music jokes go far too long, as does everything else in the film. The scenes in which the film's pathos is revealed feel separate from the rest of the narrative. It is a shame because the highly imaginative characters with their obsessions and foibles are wonderfully drawn and should not be allowed to be swept away in a wave of overstatement. Brisk editing and a little bit of subtlety within the colourful chaos would have been more than welcome. Instead, we are left disappointed.

Naachle London (2013)

Vijay is a having difficulties stone artist who works as a instrument trainer while trying for his big break. He is also a caring dad to his toddler Krishna with whom he lifestyles in a Western London, uk authorities smooth.

Rani is a effective single mom balancing a business and an family such as her little girl Mark, son Amit, widowed dad JT and crazy child sis Pooja.

Pooja operates the local Bollywood dancing category where Vijay and Rani take their children. A top manufacturer declares that Native indian Cinema’s greatest celebrity will be looking for a younger entertainer as well as performers and performers for his new Bollywood smash hit, with the Competitors set to take place at the London, uk Mela.

Rani and Vijay fall madly in really like at the dancing category but the tale takes a turn, when Rani’s dad JT understands of his little girl’s growing connection and prohibits it. Rani is split between her regard for her dad and her losing really like for Vijay.

As Vijay motivates Krishna to exercise more complicated towards success in the dancing competition, The Patels, whose son Navin is also competitive, tale their success through any means possible.

As the dancing competition techniques and feelings between Rani and Vijay accentuate, stress produces between all the figures. On the day of the London, uk Mela, with each performance generating enjoyment, we are handled to an surge of enjoyment and dilemma as Naachle London, uk gets to its ejaculation…


Gimme the Loot (2012)

Sofia (Tashiana R. Washington) and Malcolm (Tysheeb Hickson) are teenage graffiti artists struggling for respect in New York City. They come up with a scheme to “bomb” (tag) the home run apple at CitiField (formerly Shea Stadium); but they need to find $500 to pay off a security guard to let them inside the stadium during off-hours.

Sure, Sofia and Malcolm have stolen spray paint and jumped over subway turnstiles before, but $500 is a mighty big score for them. Sofia swipes some high-price sneakers and a cell phone; and Malcolm decides to steal some weed from his occasional employer, which fatefully delivers him to the home of an über-rich, white chick named Ginnie (Zoë Lescaze). No matter how much they steal, Sofia and Malcolm keep finding themselves returning to square one; so they finally decide to enlist the assistance of Champion (Meeko Gattuso) to help them burgle Ginnie’s home.

Gimme the Loot‘s naturalistic, guerrilla-style cinematography (Jonathan Miller) is offset by overly-manicured dialogue that would have benefited from organic, free-flowing, improvisational delivery. Writer-director Adam Leon’s micro-budget indie has a poetic rhythm to its “day in the life” structure, as it attempts to navigate the economic and social disparities between Manhattan and the outlying boroughs. Gimme the Loot removes parental guidance from the equation, turning New York City into a lawless playground for teenagers. One might say that Gimme the Loot glorifies Sofia and Malcolm’s life of crime and simultaneously softens Leon’s critique of the economic quagmire in which they are immersed. Despite their reliance upon thievery to survive, it is difficult not to root for the film’s anti-heroes, Sofia and Malcolm. Gimme the Loot won the Grand Jury prize in the Narrative Feature Competition at SXSW 2012.


 

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