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It is small wonder Charlize Theron won the Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her part in this intensely alarming movie. As Aileen, a prostitute since the
It is small wonder Charlize Theron won the Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her part in this intensely alarming movie. As Aileen, a prostitute since the
It is a sad truth, though hardly ever spoken, the finest of poets cannot live well off the earnings of their labor. While the short life of the brilliant Sylvia
Not exactly excited about writing this review, take this one as a reviewer’s community service. What starts out with every indication of a good suspense drama in Perfect Stranger, somehow
Ever ask a mathematician for a proof any philosophy of value for his work exists? Or that precise definitions actually apply to premises derived solely on the basis of theory
In the director’s cuts of this film, expressed by Richard Kelly himself, are segments which narrow the otherwise “open interpretation” one otherwise has to apply to its viewing. What Mr.
The Brood, a horror film whose one grandest surviving distinction is the presence of an intensely powerful late Oliver Reed perfomance (only typical to the one man that ever favorably
This is the year, 2009, the film, Freejack, was a futurist extension into, from its origin of 1991. Significant, one would think, for a retrospective “reinterpretation” or, at least, an
Not since Taxi Driver has the silver screen seen a performance like Robert De Niro’s, as Gil Renard, a knife salesman-turned-Willy-Loman (but with far more consequence.) Clearly both the role
At a time when virtual reality still held a frontier-like aspect, this superb story of Brian Owens, wonderfully adapted to the screen by Andrew Kevin Walker, and skillfully directed by
A movie upon which effect and camera angle figure prominently in its success, Dead and Buried, creatively exploring a subtle telling of the Jeff Millar story as adapted to screen
In a field of many contenders, this Dracula, ably directed by John Badham, stands out in several categories. The Hamilton Deane adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel holds true to both
Two roles and one storyline element make a revisit to this double decade plus film (not to mention its director, John Carpenter) an interesting exercise far beyond nostalgia. The role
Graced by the appearance of Charlton Heston and with the well established stars of horror, John Trent and Jurgen Prochnow, In The Mouth of Madness offers to serve the deserving
Dedicated to Niara Isley Adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel by Paul Meyersberg to screen play must have been a daunting task, nearly as much as deriving the vision of
Made at the height of its two starring actor’s careers, Best Seller’s script requires no less to sell its storyline. Succeed they do, both James Woods, as Cleve, an upper
A screen script by Robert Getchell adapted from the novel by Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life, under direction of Michael Caton-Jones, is a fifties style domestic tragedy averted. Two elements
A movie that sports two exceptional performances by Guy Pearce, as Jimmy Starks, a super salesman coming to terms with his mortality and past; and the well established J. K.
Featuring perhaps Mickey Rourke’s definitive role, directed and screen written by Alan Parker, Angel Heart is a powerful movie based on a thriller novel by William Hjortsberg. Taylor Hackford’s, The