If you’re a fan of foreign films this weekend is for you, as you’ll have a comedy and a thriller to choose from. Helen Mirren, the late Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, and Terrence Jenkins all shine with wonderful roles that will help you get to warmer weather. As we approach Easter, you’ll also have a rich movie about the early days of Jesus that will open your eyes to the religious possibilities.
Enjoy the movies this weekend – I always do!
Lolo (2015)
(NR) 99 min – Comedy
Director: Julie Delpy
Stars: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Vincent Lacoste, Karin Viard
‘Lolo’ is the best foreign film of the year, as the French show how love is universal in any language. Violette is a 40 year old workaholic who falls in love with a computer geek, realizing that love comes when you least expect it. This movie is cute and romantic. [watch trailer]
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
(R) 95 min – Comedy
Director: Michael Showalter
Stars: Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs, Wendi McLendon-Covey
Sally Field returns to the silver screen as a 60-year matriarch takes a self-help class and gathers the courage to chase a co-worker. [watch trailer]
River of Grass (1994)
(NR) 76 min – Drama
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Stars: Larry Fessenden, Dick Russell, Michael Buscemi, Lisa Bowman
In one of the most interesting movies of the year, a woman joins a budding criminal on a journey of love and crime that reveals the innocence of need and desire. River of Grass is dangerously funny. [watch trailer]
Marguerite (2015)
(R) 129 min – Drama
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Stars: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret
A wealthy woman who loves the opera decides she will perform for a real audience. Her friends quickly realize that she can’t sing a lick, but is undaunted in her desire to entertain. This foreign film will inspire the Walter Mitty in all of us. [watch trailer]
Eye in the Sky (2015)
(R) 102 min – Drama
Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi
In the late Alan Rickman’s last performances on the silver screen, a military officer in Kenya must face the difficult decision to either move forward with a scheduled drone strike, or forsake the mission for the safety of a nine year old gild who accidentally enters the danger zone. Helen Mirren delivers a powerful performance that will have you at the edge of your seat. [watch trailer]
Creative Control (2015)
(R) 97 min – Drama
Director: Benjamin Dickinson
Stars: Benjamin Dickinson, Nora Zehetner, Dan Gill, Alexia Rasmussen
Imagine the story line behind the scenes of a Madison Avenue advertising executive in future New York who has finds herself in a tryst while satisfying a client. Creative Control is a marriage of MTV and film as this black and white film uses subliminal and overt dialogue to bring home one of the most endearing films of the year. [watch trailer]
The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
(R) 83 min – Action
Director: Louis Leterrier
Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher, Penélope Cruz
Two brothers up for adoption are separated at an early age and reunite when one of the brothers, a top British spy teams up with his criminal brother to .fill the void in their lives while saving the country. You will love the journey these brothers take in an atypical British spy film filled with dry humor and sadness. [watch trailer]
The Perfect Match (2016)
(R) Romance
Director: Bille Woodruff
Stars: Terrence Jenkins, Paula Patton, Kali Hawk, Lauren London
A romantic yet shallow player, who loves all the girls, finally meets his match, and the roles become reversed as the playboy desires more than a casual fling. [watch trailer]
The Young Messiah (2016)
(PG-13) 111 min – Drama
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Stars: Sean Bean, David Bradley, Jonathan Bailey, Lee Boardman
This is an usual storyline of a young Jesus Christ leaving Egypt on their way to Nazareth, and the lives that intersect the Young Messiah who delivers more than salvation to all those around him. The Young Messiah will touch your soul. [watch trailer]
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
(NR) 105 min – Sci-Fi
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr., Mat Vairo
In the year’s most compelling Sci-Fi, a young girl wakes up in the basement of a man who claims to have saved her life from a terrorist attack, but realizes the chemical attack has turned every woman over 36 into a liquid. John Goodman is amazing, while Mary Elizabeth Winstead carries the film. [watch trailer]
—
Photo Credit: Kzenon / Shutterstock.com