Oops Hey ! All Work All Fun » Movie http://www.oopshey.com Idea Exchange - Education - Entertaining Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:22:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.oopshey.com http://www.oopshey.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/2007127213152687778036.png Oops Hey ! All Work All Fun State of Play http://www.oopshey.com/state-of-play.html http://www.oopshey.com/state-of-play.html#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:43:22 +0000 Firman http://www.oopshey.com/?p=48 Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party’s contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out. D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey has the dubious fortune of both an old friendship with Collins and a ruthless editor, Cameron, who has assigned him to investigate. As he and partner Della try to uncover the killer’s identity, McCaffrey steps into a cover-up that threatens to shake the nation’s power structures. And in a town of spin-doctors and wealthy politicos, he will discover one truth: when billions are at stake, no one’s integrity, love or life is ever safe.

]]> http://www.oopshey.com/state-of-play.html/feed 1 Serbis http://www.oopshey.com/serbis.html http://www.oopshey.com/serbis.html#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:40:22 +0000 Firman http://www.oopshey.com/?p=45 Filipino director Brillante Mendoza brings a frank, gritty immediacy to SERBIS, a multi-character, day-in-the-life portrait of a family-run movie house in the Philippines. Only this isn’t your typical movie house. It’s actually a downtrodden venue that shows graphic double features and allows the clientele to make their own sexual connections in the dark shadows. Today is a very important day, for Nanay Flor, the family matriarch, is going to discover if she won a years-in-the-making bigamy case against her husband. Meanwhile, her children are involved in dramatic situations of their own. Alan has just learned troubling news about his girlfriend, and Nayda is married but attracted to her cousin Ronald. As the day develops and the verdict comes down, the Pinedas struggle to focus on the daily tasks associated with the theater, even as their own personal conflicts threaten to overwhelm them.

Shot on video, SERBIS recalls films from the Dogme 95 movement. Mendoza and screenwriter Armando Lao have clearly constructed these dramatic situations, yet they are shot on consumer video with such energy that the film often feels like a documentary. Mendoza pulls no punches, showing multiple scenes of behind-the-scenes sexuality that are even more graphic than the X-rated behavior unfolding on the cavernous theater’s silver screen. SERBIS provides a realistic, unflinching glimpse into this hyper-sexualized world.

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