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Not since Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has the screen been graced with such a duel between acting talents, even from the first version of Sleuth where Michael
Not since Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has the screen been graced with such a duel between acting talents, even from the first version of Sleuth where Michael
A documentary of engrossing significance and presentation, under Oren Jacoby’s able direction, Constantine’s Sword, does exceeding justice to autobiographical pursuits of ex-priest, James Carroll as he travels the world and
Amidst the gathering interest in vampire films so recently aroused by Twilight and the keen expectations seemingly placed upon promised sequels, viewers might find similar interest in a revisit to
As with most anything involving close historical referencing or the creative arts, Wikipedia characteristically misses the boat with its comments regarding the significance and interpretation of Leo Carax’s Pola X.
(In answer to a request from a most appealing young lady, Samantha) In a tradition almost begun by Anne Rice, and under the able direction of another lady, Catherine Hardwicke,
Of all the Master of Horror series, Joe Dante’s The Screwfly Solution shares its immeasurable claim to the horror genre equally superbly with that of another such category, the futurist
Only since writing reviews has this reviewer noticed how many films he’s seen in the past have been edited, sometimes suspiciously. Suspiciously, in the sense that certain subtleties, obviously intended
Subtitled, Angels of the Apocalypse, this film, unlike the first Crimson Rivers, exploits too many themes for either coherence or credibility as it tries its own stab at an Indiana
Another well script-written film, attributable, perhaps, to allowing the novelist (Jean-Christophe Grange) to adapt his own work, Crimson Rivers, under the able direction of Mathieu Kassovitz, has both setting, cast
Under the seasoned direction of Steven Spielberg, Artificial Intelligence is far more than what is easily apparent. Amid a series of films, both futurist and science fiction, this one tackles
South Korean emergence as a cinematic story-teller is well exampled by this carefully woven tale of the bizarre and macabre, yet still in context of a mystery thriller rather than
Two generations away from the 1951 version of the, The Day the Earth Stood Still, speculations have gathered of what “secret government forces” had input to its making and promotion.
A movie in which a midget/dwarf repeatedly introduces himself, “I’m an American, but don’t hold that against me” can’t be bad, in fact this movie, with its Irish flavored flair
In the chilling words of a new director within a new CIA headquarters the discussion on government overview prompts these words, paraphrased, “the is not used in front of CIA
In one of the most significant roles of his illustrious career, Max von Sydow’s performance as Knut Hamsun reveals just how much this great author was exploited by circumstance and
In the genre of the anti-war film, viewers are prepared for the work’s “message“. Indeed willing even to accept a certain amount of didacticism in its spin. But when we
In a role unfamiliar to the type most noteworthy of Ms. Gillian Anderson, long time star of the X-Files, the lovely actress carries convincingly the character of smart business woman
Throughout our society and its underbelly of racial divide (still persisting) an honest story comes to be refreshing. For an infected wound seldom relieves itself of its poisons without pressing