Take a look into the minds and impact of popular artists with this week’s new documentaries. Two films debuting in theaters this week play off ones that already resonated with audiences. Chaos ensues when old friends reunite in a sequel to a popular 1999 film.
Old college friends get together for the Christmas holiday in The Best Man Holiday. Fifteen years may have passed since they last saw each other, but it seems nothing has changed between them including the relationships, rivalries and romances. Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau, Monica Calhoun and Melissa De Sousa star in the two hour and nine minute comedy. It’s rated R for nudity, sex and language.
Parents to be struggle to make ends meet in Sunlight Jr.. Once Melissa & Richie receive the happy news that they’re going to parents, Melissa loses her job as a convenience store clerk. With the store being one of their only sources of income, they are forced to move out of the motel they live in. Richie, a paraplegic with an alcohol problem, has trouble finding work. The only way for them to get through their financial struggles is to stick together. The unrated drama is playing in limited theaters for one hour and thirty minutes.
The story behind Russian artist Ilya Kabakov is told in Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here. Ilya Kabakov’s creativity was stifled under Stalin’s rule until he fled the Soviet Union in 1998 and headed for the United States. His art reflects the hardships in his life from effects of Communism and immigration. The unrated, limited released documentary runs for one hour and forty-three minutes.
Teenagers battle for their lives in The Starving Games. The limited released PG-13 comedy is a spoof of the popular novel and film The Hunger Games. In the one hour and twenty-three minute parody, contestants compete to stay alive and win an old ham, a coupon for a foot long sandwich and a half eaten pickle.
The man behind the popular Calvin & Hobbes cartoons gets center stage in Dear Mr. Watterson. For over a decade, fans looked forward to reading the comic strip in the newspaper every day. The one hour and twenty-nine minute documentary shows the impact the comic had, not only on newspaper and book sales, but also pop culture. The unrated film is available in limited theaters.
This week’s The Starving Games puts a comedic twist to the popular novel and now film The Hunger Games, prepping for the release of the sequel. The second film in the series, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, hits theaters next week.
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