AfroPixFlix's Blog (7)

Peeee-yuuuuuu! What’s that, Kale Pach simmering on the stove or this turkey of a film?  So much promise was squandered in this film about a woman brought over to America from Iran by her new husband. It’s an older, pre-911 film, but the anti-Muslim sentiments were evident in NYC then, of course. But this film beats a dead horse---er, lamb---over the head and fails to “stay on script”. AfroPixFlix spent a considerable time trying to discern how the “suitors” theme fit into this until about a…

AfroPixFlix knew this would be a funky German soul jam when the first chords of Bill Cosby and Quincy Jones’ “Hikky Burr” played during the opening frames of this flick. If you like good old fashioned funk music mixed into your modern German comedies, take a seat and tuck into this tale of two German brothers struggling to make a go of a young-at-heart restaurant in a gritty Germany warehouse district. Sure, there are more weird characters than necessary to fill the plotlines, but it’s…

The protagonist and his buddy are destitute smugglers, loading untaxed groceries and contraband from Brazil on their bicycles and lugging them across the border into Uruguay. When Pope John Paul is slated to visit their poor enclave, the peasant folk in their village bet their small savings on making a tidy mint selling chorizo and toilet privileges (thus the title) to the thousands of visitors who’ll assuredly flock in from Brazil. Nice film, almost with an O. Henry tragedy-irony tone in…

M.A.D., or “Mutual Assured Destruction,” is a term coined to depicted the stalemate that keeps a world addicted to nuclear weapons in balance. The logic is that “if you know that I’ll kill you if you try to kill me, then we’re both safe.” This film is a about a tragically M.A.D. relationship between two people living in Germany. She’s a suicidal twenty-something German yearning to escape her nagging parents who have thrown her into a mental ward. He’s a depressive thirty-something man who…

A “feel good” film about Philly inner-city high schoolers trying to overcome the odds and meet with success in with an unconventional twist. They’re into culinary arts. At the center of this is their martinet teacher, Wilma Stephenson. She has all the grace of an army staff sergeant, cussing, commanding and ceaselessly yapping her strident opinions about every possible subject into the ears of these kids. The documentary follows her students throughout a school year as they prepare for an…

Shirin. * Shirin Movie You can make this film yourself. Just spend ten minutes gazing into the bathroom mirror while listening to Homayoon Sharjarian. Kiarostami is often the "wizard of weird," and this presentation has a voyeuristic feel to it. It’s not a film. It’s a screen test of numerous Persian actresses ostensibly watching a dramatic presentation of Khosrow and Shirin, a…

The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins *Art Star Movie “These people!” These two words, seethed right from the clenched mouth of artist Vanessa Beecroft herself, best summarize the core problem of her quest to combine her art career with a desire to help at least two Sudanese people (twin infants  Madit and Mongor Akot). Beecroft sees, evaluates and acts on everything from…