Future Earth after an alien invasion, and eventually Tom Cruise's character is left to pick up a good many of the broken pieces. Sounds solid enough for a decent film.
( Published Sunday, November 27th, 2022 @ 10:44 am )]]> They say love can make you a little crazy. And the movie begins by showing how 2 people are living proof of that.
( Published Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:15 am )]]> "The one with the tiger. That's the better story," said the writer, who had invaded Pi Patel's space and stolen his time to recount his beautiful life story to the rest of us.
( Published Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 9:22 am )]]> Long before there was a "Nowhere Man," from The Beatles classic album of songs "Rubber Soul," there was a "Nowhere Boy."
( Published Saturday, February 26th, 2022 @ 10:16 am )]]> Miss Dodger, the drama teacher supervising the elementary school players doing "Alice in Wonderland," described her Alice, Phoebe Lichton, as "a very special child."
( Published Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 11:38 am )]]> But then again, growing up, I loved every episode of the Three Stooges. Yes, the Howard brothers, plus Larry Fine helped make growing up in the 1950's/60's a fairly good time.
( Published Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 8:43 am )]]> "Slumdog Millionaire," is a more complex story, yet like "Rocky," it is an Hindi yarn of a young Indian boy struggling to survive, while endeavoring to salvage what grace he can scavenge, like so many crumbs from the meager table of the proletariat.
( Published Sunday, February 20th, 2022 @ 9:09 am )]]> "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" was surprisingly funny. Laughing out loud at neurotic Europeans and American Tourists is rather more humorous than considering the humor wrapped in the neurosis of Manhattan natives, which has been the staple of previous Woody Allen Movies.
( Published Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 3:46 pm )]]> While RED 2 may be your common, garden variety sequel, it is mostly just the blackest of comedies built upon the intractable foundation of a perfect farce, where interpersonal relationships really do matter.
( Published Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm )]]> "Burn After Reading," the latest edition in Ethan and Joel Coen's offbeat and often distinctive films: some comedies, some dramas, some from another world of intellect, was exactly what I expected - overwhelmingly eclectic.
( Published Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 2:11 am )]]> Or possibly, you may question your sanity as to why you just spent 115 minutes of your precious time to wade through some fairly disturbing images, just to catch up on what passes for a preadolescent monster posing as an innocent, precociously wise and complex character study of a "girl gone wild."
( Published Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 6:02 pm )]]> The Folk scene in Greenwich Village, New York City, was a transformative time in American music. It does not particularly mean that all of the music was good, or especially unique, it just was a new wave of sound which should be understood from a historical context.
( Published Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 @ 10:49 pm )]]> Wes Anderson's films are an eclectic hodgepodge of reserved goodness; some sweeter than others, but all resilient as tested by time, and a perfect evening in the present.
( Published Sunday, January 30th, 2022 @ 10:09 am )]]> The redemptive process, from seeing clearly the good and the bad of terrible times, defines and hones the best of humanity, and thus has preserved our species for millennia, and may sustain us for many more.
( Published Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 5:53 am )]]> A Fairy Tale for the Five Burroughs of New York ... And for the rest of us a tall tale, with a rewarding story of complete unconditional love.
( Published Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 7:16 pm )]]> A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
( Published Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 8:26 am )]]> Polish immigrant Leonard Chess wanted a better life, and he built it on the talented backs of some pretty good musicians, like Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howl'n Wolfe, Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.
( Published Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm )]]> Mary Surratt may have been a loving mother, but it would eventually kill her. Regardless, President Lincoln was murdered and retribution must be exacted, irrespective of the accused's culpability.
( Published Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 1:19 am )]]> Marcus Luttrell wrote this titular story of his one life experience that would forever define who he was, who he is, and who he will remain.
( Published Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm )]]> I know where I was when Osama was killed by Seal Team 6. It was Sunday night in North Carolina, and I was no closer to that cathartic event than was Barack Obama.
( Published Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 5:34 pm )]]> "Boyhood" is Richard Linklater baby: his nuanced theme, his created tale, his directed story of family, acquaintances and friends that grow into a life from one child's boyhood.
( Published Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 8:26 pm )]]> The film, "Gravity", makes two broad statements: Outer Space affords one magnificent visual beauty, and there is no place more dangerous in sustaining one's life force.
( Published Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 7:01 pm )]]> The unsanctified blood and gore, and the unmitigated violence to inflict such, in copious proportions with extreme prejudice, upon one's enemy was the unrelenting theme of this most effective film.
( Published Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 1:35 pm )]]> With the 'faith of a mustard seed', one may lose all vestiges of xenophobia.
( Published Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 9:55 am )]]> Both boys are the "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas." Their individual stories that led them to that conclusion represent the intertwined paths of these two fated peoples: the Germans and the Jews.
( Published Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 6:16 pm )]]>