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BRICK LANE
United Kingdom / English & Some Bengali with English Subtitles
Running Time: 102 min; Rated: PG-13
4 OUT OF 5 STARS
Reviewed by Denise Castillón

A Still Yet Moving Cinematic Journey Down BRICK LANE

An eloquent portrayal of the inner isolation of a Muslim woman living in foreign country delivered by one of India’s leading actresses, Tannishtha Chatterjee in BRICK LANE.

At 17, an arranged marriage to an older man, in faraway London, tears Nazneen (TANNISHTHA CHATTERJEE) away from her beloved home, Bangladesh, and adored younger sister, Hasina.

Now a dutiful wife and mother, Nazneen has made a home for her foolishly idealist husband, Chanu (SATISH KAUSHIK), and her two teen-aged daughters, in East London’s multi-cultural neighborhood known as Brick Lane.

Long-term plans for the whole family’s eventual return to Bangladesh are jeopardized, when her husband quits his job to protest his pass over for a promotion. This is particularly upsetting for Nazneen, who has been quietly and persistently suffering from homesickness. The long-distance letters she receives from her sister not only fueled her nostalgia, but, on reading about her sister’s romantic life, also has created a longing for the same experience of love.

Highly motivated to return to her homeland, Nazneen steps out of the shadows and starts a home business sewing mass-produced garments. The young, handsome Karim (CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON) delivers her weekly assignments. Slowly, with each visit, their attraction develops into a passionate love affair.

Then, two commercial airline planes hit the Twin Towers in New York City.

Directed by Sarah Gavron. Produced by Alison Owen and Christopher Collins. Executive Produced by Tessa Ross, Paula Jalfon, Duncan Reid and Paul Trijbits. Written by Abi Morgan and Laura Jones. Photography directed by Robbie Ryan. A Red Rudy Film Production. Released by Sony Classics.

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3D
(Running Time: 92 min/Rated: PG)
Three Out of Five Stars
Reviewed by Denise Castillón

MAKE YOUR NEXT FAMILY TRIP A “JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH”

Like amusement park roller-coasters, the movie JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3D is great family entertainment. Just as long as every family member is tall enough to fit their seat, -and old enough for the movie’s PG rating “for intense adventure action and some scary moments”! At unexpected times, you will squirm and jump out of your seat, -thanks to the movies’ spectacular 3D digital effects, while being transported to a fantastic new world full of exotic creatures living beneath the earth’s surface.

Solitary bachelor and eccentric science professor, Trevor Anderson (BRENDAN FRASER), minds his apathetic teenaged nephew, Sean (JOSH HUTCHERSON) for his sister-in-law for a couple of weeks. In attempt to interest Sean in science, Trevor brings him to his research laboratory. Once there, Trevor observes that the Earth is displaying the same seismic conditions that occurred at the time when his brother, and Sean’s father, vanished, without a trace, ten years ago. Analyzing his findings, Trevor determines his brother traveled to Iceland at the time of his disappearance. With the single-minded purpose of finding his missing brother, Trevor reluctantly brings Sean along for the journey. Once in Iceland, they hire a beautiful and capable mountain guide, Hannah (ANITA BRIEM), and all three embark on an adventure of a lifetime and discover a world thought only to be merely conceived by the imagination of a storyteller.

Based on the classic science-fiction fantasy novel by Jules Verne, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is the first live-action feature film to be shot and released entirely in the newest digital 3D format, REAL D.

JOURNEY 3D is the part of a whole batch of upcoming three-dimensional movies. This modern new wave of 3-D pictures are seen by the movie studios as their best game plan to improve theater attendance and box-office grossess. Today’s 3-D digital systems require major financial investments, both by the studios and theater owners. To produce such films, a 3D camera is used to simultaneously record separate left and right-eye images onto two filmstrips – one for each eye. To project the REAL D format, IMAX theaters and other 3D-equipped movie auditoriums require a 3-D digital projector, which alternates the two polarized images clockwise and counterclockwise at 144 frames per second. The theaters also need a special silver screen, or IMAX screen, which is designed with a slight curve to integrate the audience’s peripheral vision. Until 3-D display technology is successfully developed, polarized 3D glasses are still necessary to fuse the two images together and create a single, larger-than-life image and the sensation of being “in” the movie.

Directed by Academy Award-winning visual effects veteran Eric Brevig (TOTAL RECALL, PEARL HARBOR), from a screenplay by Michael Weiss and Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin. Produced by large-format film producer Charlotte Huggins. A co-venture between New Line Cinema and Walden Media.

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