Silent Partner

I've been going over movies I've already watched that have a holiday theme or take place during the holiday season. In Silent Partner, a nerdy bank teller discovers his bank is to be robbed. He has the bright idea to take some of the money first, hiding it in his own safe deposit box and letting the robber take full blame. But the robber finds out.

Spoken Word

This low budget indie deals with a familiar issue in film: a dying parent is a catalyst for an adult child to return home and hopefully reconcile. The main character Cruz Montoya (Kuno Becker) is a slam poet working in San Francisco. He has had some fame, and is touring the country with his poetry and heading a class for teens. He's also dating a like-minded painter, Shea. When Cruz gets a call from his sister-in-law in New Mexico, she tells him his father has been ill and thinks it is a good time for him to return home.

Bernard and the Genie

This film is only about 70 minutes long so I’m not sure if this was a feature film or a TV movie (it does have the feel of a made-for-TV holiday special since it takes place during Christmas). The plot is sort of a low grade Bedazzled. Naïve Bernard (Alan Cumming, looking like he’s eleven years old) seems to be looked down by everyone, including his greedy supercilious boss (Rowan Atkinson, looking very devil-y) who doesn’t like how nice and generous Bernard is to their clients, and his girlfriend who has been sleeping with their best friend for years. It so happens that the previous year the girlfriend gave Bernard a fancy Arabian lamp, and unbeknownst to them a magic one, inhabited by an inexperienced genie (Lenny Henry).

Past seven days

With the holidays coming on I have so many things to do!  So movie watching has been light.  I have also been checking out the TV comedy series, Community.

My Week With Marilyn
Newsies
The Sitter
The Whisperers

Past seven days

Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving with your family and friends!  The "friends" I spent time with were Muppets, Jason Bourne, and a really ugly woman.

Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bourne Ultimatum
Carancho
Jack and Jill
The Immortals
The Muppets
Oceans 13
We Bought a Zoo