99 Homes (8/10): A modern day companion to WallStreet

"Don't get emotional about real estate."


99 Homes is a powerful drama that resonates with the current economic state of the United States in the same way that Wall Street did in the 80's. Michael Shannon's Rick Carver as a realtor who makes his living by evicting families from their homes and cheating on the bank system, is in a way the modern Gordon Gekko (a character that turned Michael

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Young Ones (6/10): It establishes an interesting futuristic setting, but lacks character development.

"Pray for rain.”


Gwyneth Paltrow’s younger brother, Jake, introduces us to a dystopian future where water is scarce  in Young Ones, his sophomore feature film. The film has style and it is also gorgeous to look at the empty vast dry land (filmed in South Africa, but taking place in an undisclosed American town), but unfortunately the characters did lack some development. This could well be

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