A young girl is recruited to be a child soldier in the Colombian jungle and copes with her circumstances by using her imagination to journey to a magical realm.
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.
A young girl named Copi and her pet dog Xico travel into the mountain when they hear that something's not right.
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.
'The Invisible Man' triumphs in tension even as it drops the ball on genuine surprise for the audience.
That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.
