Goodbye Solo News

The Clarence Dillon Public Library is screening newly released movies on selected Friday afternoons as part of the Friday Movie Matinee Film Series.

The West Virginia International Film Festival's 25th anniversary fall festival kicks off Friday night with a docudrama about a single African American mother who gets caught up in a Texas drug bust.

Saturday, 7:15 p.m.: "The Hurt Locker": Iraq War drama/action thriller about an elite Army bomb disarming squad.

The 11th Mumbai Film Festival takes off, the main venue being right in the hub of the film industry in Andheri, surrounded by film, and TV production offices.

The 13th Canberra International Film Festival runs from 28 October until 12 November.

An audience favourite at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, a oeGoodbye Soloa , has received rave critical reviews as a thoughtful and original human drama that looks at relationships and loneliness.

Glad to see the first installment generated lots of conversation and debate. Sticking with my promise to feature young talent along with legends, this weeks subject is Ramin Bahrani .

Demetrios Matheou on Couples Retreat and the rest of the weeka TMs movies. Oh, what promise they had.

Solo is an awesome name. Think of the great movie characters who use it. Intergalactic rogue Han Solo, sauve UCLE agent Napoleon Solo.

Recent releases that fall into the giant Hollywood cliche of white people healed by encounters with darker-skinned people Saturday, 10 October 2009 New American indie Goodbye Solo deals with the friendship between a Senegalese cab driver and a grumpy old white man about to commit suicide.

Capsule reviews of films currently playing at area theaters by Elkhart Truth movie columnist Ben Ford , the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times .

This week, Jason Solomons meets director John Landis to discuss his 1981 landmark comic horror film An American Werewolf in London on the eve of its re-release. Landis regales us with some of the challenges in making the picture in London, how he managed to get permission to film the famous sequence in Piccadilly Circus and why he fought the unions ...

Critics' Choice Fay Maschler The downstairs bar will become a hangout. Mark my words Hix Terry Gilliam's latest film is a triumph.

Many Hollywood movies revel in exploring people's dark and violent side, but the next offering in the Huronia Film Series is all about genuine human kindness.

On the lonely roads of North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever.

Alejandro , a Queens urchin, lives and works amongst the junk heaps and stolen cars of the local chop shop - both a street-savvy preteen and a naive dreamer, he knows how to navigate this adult world yet innocently hopes to purchase a van and turn it into ice cream truck.

Taxi driver: Red West and Souleymane Sy Savane strike up an unusual friendship in 'Goodbye Solo' enlarge There was a time when a buddy film would have men being men and women, well, stuck at home doing the washing for all the interest that film-makers had in them.

Award-winning musician David Gogo is set to perform Oct. 3 at The Rhumba Room, 1160 King George Hwy., along with The Jason Buie Band.

Robert West, better known as "Red," has long exceeded the average entertainer's 15 minutes of fame, with a resume that boasts acting, stuntwork, songwriting, and even a gig as Elvis' bodyguard.

I'm willing to give Steven Soderbergh an awful lot of room when it comes to creative choice.