Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Midnight In Paris screens this Thursday February 2 at 4pm. Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Carla Bruni star in Woody Allen's romantic comedy about a family on a business trip in the City of Lights.
It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. Many a writer or artist has longed to travel back in time to the sizzling Paris of the 1920s, to sip absinthe with Hemingway at Les Deux Magots or dine on choucroute garnie with Picasso at La Rotonde. Imagine the conversation!
What has beguiled audiences about the new Woody Allen movie, “Midnight in Paris,” is that the protagonist, Gil, a disenchanted Hollywood screenwriter played by Owen Wilson, gets to live exactly that fantasy.
“A joyous delight! In this beguiling and then bedazzling new comedy, nostalgia isn't at all what it used to be — it's smarter, sweeter, fizzier and ever so much funnier,” says the Wall Street Journal.
“Marvelously romantic. A credible blend of whimsy and wisdom,” says the New York Times.
Next up On Screen is the “raucous comedy” Golden Globe nominated The Guard, showing Thursday February 16 at 4pm.
The Guard is a comedic fish-out-of-water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption. Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleason) is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor.
A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) assigned to the case.
“A great gust of very funny fresh air. An impish and impudent black comedy. Gives veteran actor Brendan Gleeson one of the tastiest roles of his career and introduces a gifted writer-director,” says the Los Angeles Times
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