Want to take your baby to the movies without upsetting others or receiving death threats from the guy behind you? From now on you can, as The Flicks now offers special ‘cry babies’ movie sessions, every Tuesday at 2pm.
These babes-in-arms sessions are specifically designed for parents with babies and young children. The lights are kept on a little higher, the volume turned down for little ears and other cinema-goers will understand if your baby child decides to cry!
The first Baby Session is scheduled for Tuesday April 26 and will feature “Just Go With It” starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston.
Hello Phnom Penh!
Khmer New Year has passed and everybody should be back in Phnom Penh safely for another week of good movies at The Flicks! What’s coming up?
First of all, this weeks movies will be screened a lot. On weekdays the evening movies now starts at 8pm instead of 7pm. If that’s too late, you can also go for the 6pm session.
Anthony Hopkins is starring in The Rite as an American seminary student who travels to Italy to take an exorcism couse . It is probably a pretty obvious statement, but the film is worth seeing for Hopkins alone. Father Lucas Trevant is the strongest and creepiest role Hopkins has played since Hannibal Lecter and his best role overall in years. It’s just amazing seeing a man in his seventies give a performance that’s this physical and this absorbing.
The Flicks is also proud to be able to screen In A Better World, a Danish movie that had recently won a Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. On your agenda: a must-see movie. It’s about a doctor who commutes between his family home in Denmark and his work at an African refugee camp. Right, two different worlds, in which he and his family is faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness.
The big blockbuster for this week is MIRAL. It’s a drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl (starring “Slumdog Millionaire” actress Freida Pinto as Miral) growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict. The Associated Press wrote: “Miral sweeps across decades of the Mideast conflict. The cinematography lays out beautiful Palestinian landscapes and Pinto glows in her scenes.” This fascinating movie deals with a Palestinian community in turmoil due to change. That change was the effect that the new Statehood of Israel caused. As with any new regimes change is mandatory and an often misunderstood process and the story of Miral reflects that process. It would be a shame if the Jewish Community misreads the intention of the film. Films like this do not come around often and avoiding it out of ignorance would be a mistake. However, on April 4, 2011, days after the film’s US release, Juliano Merr-Khamis, the actor and peace activist who plays Seikh Saabah in the film, was shot to death in his car outside a theatre he had established in a Palestinian refugee camp.
One more really great movie I have to mention is the Australian thriller (yes, that’s right) Beautiful. Despite a few comparisons to ‘American beauty’ and ‘Blue velvet’ this film is definitely not in the same league as those films. It is however a well constructed thriller from first time director Dean O’Flaherty. Beautiful shows us the secrets that hide behind what appears to be a normal suburban town in Adelaide and how the main character is determined to find the truth no matter how dark things might really be.
For comedy lovers the flicks of this week are Just Go With It (with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler) and I Love You Philip Morris (with Jim Carey and Ewan McGregor going gay). And the Monday afternoon Backpacker’s Classic is Lost In Translation (with Bill Muray and Scarlett Johansson). A true classic, of course! And the King’s Speech will play for the last time this Friday afternoon.
