Friday November 8 to Thursday November 14, 2013

A divorced masseuse falls into a romance with a kindhearted empty nester, but starts to question their relationship based on the bitter ramblings of an unhappy client in this dramedy from writer/director Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing, Please Give). Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is the single mother of a teenage daughter who will soon be heading off to college.

Director Lee Daniels (Precious) teams up with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Danny Strong to tell the remarkable story of White House butler Eugene Allen (played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker), who served eight U.S. presidents over the course of 30 years, and witnessed sweeping social change during his three decades of service at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

This isn’t left. This isn’t right. This is just the way it is. And it’s not only terribly wrong, it’s actually bad for business.

As the first English language adaptation of Shakespeare’s iconic play since 2000, and the first to offer a straightforward take since Zeffirelli’s 1968 version, Carlo Carlei’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a sobering reminder that impetuous and hormonally charged teenagers were a thing for ages.

Jia Zhangke deservedly won best screenplay honours at the Cannes for A Touch of Sin, an intricately plotted tetraptych about the nasty and brutish conditions of life in contemporary China.