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City Island – Movie Trailer
May 5th
A dysfunctional family living on a picturesque island in the Bronx spares no expense in avoiding the truth about their messed-up lives in writer/director Raymond de Felitta’s dark family comedy. The family patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia) is a prison guard who is secretly plotting a new career as an actor. Meanwhile, as Vince takes acting lessons on the down low, his daughter moonlights as a stripper and his younger namesake harbors a secret fetish that involves the family’s 300-pound neighbor. Under normal circumstances Vincent’s wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), would be the family rock, but lately she’s been preoccupied with uncovering the identity of the hired help, a secret that only her husband knows.
“The Joneses” Whole New Meaning
Apr 28th
Whole New Meaning
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE JONESES is a modern “morality tale” that could have been much better if the filmmakers had gone for the satirical jugular instead of watering it down with cheap, easy melodrama.
Demi Moore and David Duchovny play Kate and Steve Jones, they have two teenage children named Jenn and Mick, and they are moving into a new town.
The first thing we notice to be odd about this typical American family is when they are all in the car driving toward their new home and Steve says, “We’re going to do some damage in this town.”
Then after all their fancy new furniture has been moved in and they have received a welcome visit from their new neighbors Larry and Summer Symonds, the second thing we notice to be odd about the Joneses is that Steve and Kate wear matching new pajamas to go to bed, but they sleep in separate bedrooms.
The next day, Steve meets Larry for a round of golf and Kate goes into town to get her hair done, and there is a reason that they both have fancy new “stuff” with them that they are more than happy to show off and talk about to anyone who will listen.
But the third thing we notice to be odd is that evening, Kate and the kids didn’t bother waiting for Steve to come home, and he has to eat his dinner alone.
However, the fourth odd thing is the kicker. That night a naked woman slips into Steve’s bedroom and slides into bed with him. But before anything can happen, Kate comes to the door, turns on the lights, and tells Jenn to get out of Steve’s bed.
You guessed it. The Joneses aren’t a typical American family after all. In fact, they aren’t even a family. They are a team of actors who didn’t even know each other until they were hired by a company to move into a new town and persuade the people they meet to buy the fancy new products that they have and use for themselves.
Even the toilet bowl in their bathroom is an advanced new product.
THE JONESES has a nice little twist at the end, and it gives a whole new meaning to “Keeping up with the Joneses” and blatant product placement in movies these days.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
The Joneses – Movie Trailer
Apr 27th
A picture-perfect family moves into an upscale community, impressing the locals and integrating themselves into every aspect of the community until a sudden tragedy forces them to reassess their priorities. Steve (David Duchovny) and Kate Jones (Demi Moore) have everything a happily married couple could ever want: their kids, Jenn (Amber Heard) and Mick (Ben Hollingsworth), are intelligent and attractive, they live in an affluent neighborhood, and their sprawling suburban home is jam-packed with all of the coolest gizmos and gadgets that money can buy. It isn’t long before the Joneses have struck up a friendship with their next-door neighbors Larry (Gary Cole) and Summer (Glenne Headly), and become integral components of their community. But take a closer look at the situation and you’ll start to see something ominous lurking just beneath the surface. It’s only when the Joneses are confronted with an unexpected disaster that they finally discover who they really are beneath the glossy veneer of consumerism.