Insights from the Cinematic World: January 11, 2012

The Dictator

The Dictator is a film starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen’s fourth film will “tell the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed”, according to Paramount Pictures, which will distribute the film.

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ROADIE

Roadie is a drama movie about Jimmy who is broke and desperate after being canned from a 20-year job as roadie for Blue Oyster Cult. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to Forest Hills, Queens to visit his aging mother, where a wild night with some hard-partying high school friends shows him that some things never change.

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