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Teenagers Atafeh, and her best friend, Shireen, are experimenting with their burgeoning sexuality amidst the subculture of Tehran's underground art scene when Atafeh's brother, Mehran, returns home from drug rehab as the prodigal son. Battling his demons, Mehran vehemently renounces his former life as a classical musician and joins the morality police. He disapproves of his sister's developing intimate relationship with Shireen and becomes obsessed with saving Shireen from Atafeh's influence. Suddenly, the two siblings, who were close confidants, are entangled in a triangle of suspense, surveillance, and betrayal as the once-liberal haven of the family home becomes a place of danger for the beautiful Atafeh.

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Though it’ll probably never play in the country in which it’s set, attendees at the Sundance Film Festival were lucky enough to see Maryam Keshavarz‘s debut feature Circumstance. Hopefully soon, you will too. Set in modern day Tehran, Iran, this beautiful film focuses on two attractive high school girls named Shireen and Atafeh, played by Sarah Kazemy and Nikohl Boosheri, both making their acting debuts. Though the girls live in a country where women are treated as second class, Shireen and Atafeh use their good looks, talents and smarts to live life as free as humanly possible. The friends eventually develop feelings for each other but when Atafeh’s brother Mehran (Reza Sixo Safai) comes home, the girls’ liberal point of view is doomed to be challenged.
Circumstance is an increasingly claustrophobic love story set against impossible odds told with a frightening cultural context. Of the thirty plus films I’d seen at Sundance before it, it was the first film to get a legitimate standing ovation.

Living in the west, it wasn’t for the film’s pop culture references and modern technology, one might guess Circumstance was set in the stone age. Important scenes featuring American Idol, Gus Van Sant’s Milk and Sex and the City let us know that even in 2011, women in Iran aren’t treated fairly. They can’t go into the ocean, can’t show skin, can’t smoke and need male permission to do almost anything. Watching the film with a western viewpoint, that knowledge makes Shireen and Atafeh’s friendship incredibly satisfying. They’re living within this unfortunate set of rules but still decide to be rebellious. They party, drink, hook up with guys and eventually get in trouble for it.

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Keshavaraz, who both wrote and directed the film, has drown it in sexuality, showing the girls at their most emotionally and physically vulnerable. Because the audience feels so attached to them, as their circumstances (get it?) begin to grab hold and lead them down an terrible road, we feel increasingly worried that it won’t all work out. We’re in love with them just as they’re in love with each other.

Circumstance is too good to not eventually get a general release. Yes, it draws you in with the promise of girls (as we, too, did with our headline) but that quickly wears off, leaving you angry at the oppressive nature of Iran and feeling very fortunate that we’re as free as we are.

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Remember, you read it here first! A star is born! Amandla Stenberg steals the entire film, which isn't bad considering she's only ten years old and is onscreen for only the opening fifteen minutes or so.

She plays the lead, Cataleya, who, as a nine-year-old, witnesses her parents' murders by Marco (Jordi Mollà), evil henchman of evil drug lord Don Luis (Beto Benites). But mom and pop had it coming anyway, because every Colombian in this film is a drug dealer and / or killer and / or gangster of some kind.

Not only does Amandla display genuine terror (I wonder how director Olivier Megaton got her to do that: threaten to put a puppy in a blender? "You see zis cute little baby puppy doggy, Amandla? You see 'ow I put 'im the 'ow you say, blendeur?") but she's handy with a hunting knife too, putting her mark on Marco before going on a rooftop parkour run for her life, dodging bullets, a motorbike, a parkouring pursuer and various SUVs. It's all breathtaking stuff that makes you read the end crawl really carefully to see if any little girls were harmed in the making of this movie.

Cataleya then makes her way to the U.S. embassy and - a nice touch this - pukes up a micro-SD card, a parting gift from daddy, which contains some kind of secret information that gets her instant citizenship and is flown to the States. She then dodges her handler and makes her way to Chicago and Uncle Emilio (Cliff Curtis), who, being Colombian, is also some kind of gangster. We know this because we're introduced to him beating some guy to a pulp in a container.

Back in the safe and loving arms of family, Cataleya decides she wants to be a professional killer and waste everyone who had anything to do with the deaths of her parents. That'll be all of Colombia, then! But first she has to go school and, after bribing the principal to overlook Cataleya's late start and presumed missing grades, uncle Emilio convinces her education is the best way - by pulling a gun in broad daylight and shooting a passing car full of holes and causing it to crash! Since nobody witnesses anything, he is able to calmly put it away and explain that whilst anyone can do that (and presumably not get caught, ever), the three R's will give her a better, uh, shot in life.

So far, so brilliant. But then we fast forward fifteen years and get... Zoe Saldana, whose vehicle this is.

It's not that Ms. Saldana doesn't look good (especially after her appearance at the Avatar press conference in Berlin, where she appeared to be promoting anorexia as a fashion statement), nor is it her athleticism, but in what is a standard Luc Besson - Olivier Megaton (crazy name, crazy guy!) mayhem movie, she is called upon to act. It's not only out of place, but her gamut runs all the way from A to not-quite-B.

Instead of a ninety-five minute waste-'em-up, we also get a completely unconvincing sub-plot love affair involving her and artist Danny Delaney (Michael Vartan). And is it just me or do all his 'paintings' feature in some shape or form? He knows nothing about her, and certainly not that she's a serial killer with twenty-two notches to her credit (Only Colombians, of course, because they all have it coming) on behalf of Uncle Emilio.

This results in the film being at least quarter of an hour longer than it needs and braking the action when it needs to keep roaring. Liam Neeson didn't need any kind of emotional claptrap in Taken so why here? So what if Cataleya is 'tortured', 'damaged' etc., do we care? No! This is essentially a cartoon film with live actors.

Of course, Cataleya's really after Marco and Don Luis, them having been conveniently relocated to the U.S. by the CIA (ostensibly because Don Luis is an informant) but allowed to carry on being major drug dealers. Just work with me here, okay? Like I say, this is a cartoon at heart. So to draw him out, she works her way through his people, drawing a large orchid on the bodies of her victims , replicating a necklace he gave to her father before ordering him wasted and which he gave to her before being wasted. Don Luis knows what that means.

Meantime FBI Agent James Ross (Lennie James) is on Cataleya's tail for earlier smuggling herself into a high security jail and taking out a really nasty piece of Colombian work. Thanks to a helpful orchid-recognizing cleaner (in an audible groan inducing moment) and that drawing artist guy of hers, the cops and feds get a solid lead on her. Cue a Leon-a-like shoot out and chase through her apartment block from which she, natch, escapes.

Not that Don Luis hasn't been busy either: he's taken out Uncle Emilio and the latter's mother. This gives Ms. Saldana another chance to act, which she seizes with both hands - and tosses out the window. I'm sorry, she can't, she really can't do it. In the hands of a real actress, such as Angelina Jolie, or waiting for Amandla Stenberg to have gone through puberty, these extra scenes would have worked and added some depth to the character, but Saldana can't carry it. Just paint her blue and have done with it, fer chrissakes!

Cataleya now goes on her merry way, finally tracking down Don Luis via threatening Agent Ross, who leads her to the CIA handler who, prompted by a bullet through the window, spills Don Luis' whereabouts.

The rest of this by-the-numbers, going-through-the-motions film is her taking out Don Luis' hired help who, unlike her, are not bullet- or bombproof, until it's time to deal with Marco, using mostly a hand towel, and finally Don Luis, using two dogs that have been trained to eat on command. Pretty cool, but sadly we don't get to see it.

It's not that Colombiana is bad, but nor is it particularly interesting. It's all rather rote, like an overtired and bored hooker giving yet another handjob. Nobody, apart from the amazing Amandla Stenberg, and those technicians, extras and stuntmen hoping to get their next gig, is really giving of their best, and Zoe Saldana, despite her clearly visible efforts and exertions, and innate hotness, is out of her depth, handicapped by her limited acting ability and a script that unfairly calls on her to show some.

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On October 10, 1973, just in time for Halloween, television audiences were treated to a spooky offering from the ABC network that stayed with them long after they watched it.

No doubt, children in particular were frightened by Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and its lurid insinuation that small dwarf-like menaces might indeed be lurking in their homes when the lights went out.

Alex and Sally Farnham (Jim Hutton and Kim Darby) have just inherited an old house from Sally's grandmother. Although Alex would prefer to live in a high-rise apartment, he consents to the move.

The charming place is in a state of dusty decline. Indeed, much restoration and refinishing will need to be done - and so the young married couple hire designer Francisco (Pedro Armendariz, Jr.) to help decorate.

In addition, they bring on Mr. Harris (William Demarest, Uncle Charlie from TV's popular My Three Sons), a carpenter who is familiar with the house...having done work on it in the past.

Sally is eager to get into the study, which is locked. After a search, she finds the key to the door hidden in an envelope in her grandmother's desk.

She would like to turn the room into an office but some renovations have to be done...including opening up the fireplace, which has been inexplicably bricked up. The ash door is bolted shut.

Mr. Harris is dead set against opening the fireplace. He tells Sally that it doesn't work and that her grandmother asked him to close it twenty years earlier. He won't reveal why, but says, "Some things are better left as they are."

Sally unbolts it anyway. No harm done, right? Wrong. When Sally is out of the study, whispered voices can be heard coming from the depths of the fireplace.

"Sally, Sally. Free, free...she set us free!" the mysterious voices chant in creepy unison.

A party is planned despite the fact that the house isn't finished. And Sally is unhappy because Alex is too preoccupied with his job.

Especially distressing to Sally is the fact that Alex has to leave for a trip to San Francisco the morning right after the party.

Later, Sally believes she sees mice and when she tries to go to sleep, an ashtray on a night table is knocked to the floor.

She tells her best friend Joan (Barbara Anderson) about what happened - but like Alex, Joan believes it must all be in her imagination.

Mr. Harris returns to the study to once again lock up the fireplace. This time, Sally doesn't protest. But it's too late as Sally finds out when something grabs at her dress. "We want you...we want you," she hears. She describes this thing to Alex as being like a "little ferocious animal."

The ash door has been unbolted and Alex phones Mr. Harris...who promptly quits in response to the suggestion that he is playing head games with Mrs. Farnham.

It's the night of the party. Guests have arrived, including Joan and her husband George (Joel Lawrence), as well as Alex's boss Tom Henderson (William Sylvester).

Sally is a bundle of nerves and is not helped by the fact that a small mutant creature is hiding in the flower arrangement.

It's all too much for Sally, who screams when the creature tries to pull a napkin off her lap and she finally sees its face. Alex doesn't believe her. After all, nobody else saw it.

While Sally is taking a shower, the light is turned out in the bathroom. Whispered voices can be heard speaking to each other.

Don't hurt her...not yet.
I want to.
Wait until tomorrow.
Let me just scare her.
Alright. Then scare her!

They do just that. When Sally turns the light back on, she finds a razor blade on the floor as the creatures scurry away. Now she's had enough and tells Alex she wants to sell the house.

Mr. Harris returns to retrieve his tools. He has a short conversation with Alex about "superstitions" and when he goes into the study, the creatures attack him with a screwdriver.

The dastardly monsters believe the old man has betrayed their secret. "I didn't tell," he pleads.

Alex has left for his business trip and Joan invites Sally to spend the evening with her. But not before a terrible incident occurs.

Francisco, just told that his services will no longer be needed, trips on a cord that was meant for Sally and stumbles down the staircase to his death. "It was a mistake, Sally. It's your spirit we want!" says one of the creatures.

Sally's hands are burned as she tries to grasp the cord. She shows the marks to Joan, who now believes her friend's outlandish story. Alex returns early and Joan explains the situation...as sleeping pills begin to take effect on Sally.

Joan encourages Alex to phone Mr. Harris, who tells Alex to come over right away. Mr. Harris finally reveals the whole story to Alex: Sally's grandfather unbolted the fireplace, which had been locked up since the 1800s.

The disastrous act unleashed the house's evil presence and Grandpa was taken down into an abyss...where he probably remains to this day.

Meanwhile, the power is cut at the Farnham home and when Joan goes outside to check on the cables, she finds that she cannot re-enter. Alex and Mr. Harris rush back when a phone call from Sally is cut short.

But it's too late. Sally has been bound and pulled down into the fireplace for eternity. By the time Alex, Joan and Mr. Harris get to the study, only Sally's futile scream can be heard...

A big creepy house, scary whispers, dark lighting, a downbeat ending...and things that go bump in the night. These are ingredients for a good thriller and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark delivers.

Special mention should go to makeup man Mike Hancock, whose exceptional work brings the creepy dried-prunehead critters to frightening reality.

Kim Darby might best be remembered for this movie and her turn opposite John Wayne in True Grit. But fans of TV's Star Trek [The Original Series] may also recall her memorable performance as the title character in the classic Miri episode.

She has continued to grace the small screen and even finds time occasionally to appear in theatrical releases, including 1995's Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

Jim Hutton would return to the genre in the underrated Psychic Killer (1975) but the actor passed away prematurely in 1979 of liver cancer at the age of 45. Son Timothy would continue the acting tradition.

Director John Newland had previously helmed the Made-for-TV Crawlspace, as well as the Night Gallery series. In addition, he directed Joan Crawford's final acting vehicle, an episode of The Sixth Sense entitled Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death.

Newland continued working in television (Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island) throughout the seventies and early eighties. He died in 2000 from complications due to a stroke.

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The most impressive thing about 'My Idiot Brother' is that it accomplishes something few films deem important these days: It makes you want to be a better person. So, it's hard to fault the film, which carries with it a few speed bumps and an ending that feels a bit too cookie-cutter, because it just plain makes you feel good. From the story to the performances to the many unexpected moments of hilarity and heartache, there's a reason why 'My Idiot Brother' is one of the biggest (and most well-received) films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it begins (and ends) with one of Paul Rudd's greatest roles.

Rudd plays Ned, a hippie with a heart of gold who lives out on a farm with his hippie girlfriend, growing produce (and marijuana) while enjoying a quiet life full of farmers' markets and downtime hanging with his dog, Willie Nelson. But Ned isn't exactly playing with a full deck, and when he sells pot to a uniformed police officer, Ned is arrested, thrown in jail and replaced on the farm by another hippie boyfriend who's just as nice and honest as Ned. This little inconvenience forces Ned to leave the farm and shack up with each of his three New York City–based sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer and Zooey Deschanel), who soon realize that their idiot brother is the best and worst thing to ever happen to them.

This would probably be a completely different movie if it weren't for its superlative cast, which stands as one the most successful ensembles at this year's festival. Not only are Banks, Mortimer and Deschanel all hilariously complicated in their own unique ways, but some of the film's supporting actors, like Steve Coogan, Shirley Knight and Adam Scott, manage to steal virtually every scene they're in.

'My Idiot Brother' is truly is Rudd's show, though, as Ned bumbles from one trendy New York apartment to the next, unwillingly tiptoeing across each sister's fragile personal life. Naturally Ned somehow finds a way to accidentally screw something up for each sibling -- from ruining a marriage for one to exposing infidelity for another -- but the funniest part about it all is that Ned is clueless the entire time. He's the live-action version of a dog -- of man's best friend: He loves everyone unconditionally, and expects those who surround him to be good-natured, down-to-earth folks just like him.

Except it's the complete opposite. Everyone around Ned is angry, detached and self-absorbed. To them, Ned is a slacker who has no idea how to manage his own life. He's pathetic, needy and a constant thorn in everyone's side. You can understand how that sort of tone could eventually crack through Ned's idealist persona, and you'd be right in predicting that it's only a matter of time before he snaps.

This is director Jesse Peretz's ('The Ex,' 'The Chateau') best film to date by far, though he finds a good amount of help in the script from first-time writers Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall. Their screenplay does a fine job of mixing familiar Hollywood ideas with an indie flavor, and though the flick has a bit of a rough go while tying things up without feeling forced and cliché, 'My Idiot Brother' should still end up one of this year's most audience-friendly comedies. And that's not such a bad thing.