WATCH NOW People have made countless movies depicting the beauty and sorrow in war, but they have yet to come up with a solution to what life is like once the action has come to an end. How does a soldier readjust to life after war gets silent? The answer is, it is a tough […]
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Read More »
WATCH NOW When Lillian Gish was cast in “Broken Blossoms,” she told D.W. Griffith that she was too old for the role, but quite possibly, she wasn’t. She was born in 1896, so when Griffith got ready for the production in 1919, she was 23. She certainly was not as slim as the audience remembered
Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) Read More »
WATCH NOW “Paris Je T’Aime” can be described simply as a film consisting of eighteen miniatures, each depicting a different part of the city of Paris. The movie is a two hour long collage of miniature films in Paris, making the viewers feel satiated but also leaving them slightly unsatisfied due to lack of a
Paris Je T’aime (2006) Read More »
WATCH NOW “Monster’s Ball” follows a black woman and a white man who, for a time at least, take comfort in each other’s pain. Their pain is still different and so are they. This isn’t a message movie about interracial relationships, but of two people who desperately try to cope with violent deaths that shake
Monster’s Ball (2001) Read More »
WATCH NOW The movie “The DUFF” has the decency of acknowledging John Hughes’s 1980 teen movies are its roots, even referencing the five high school stereotypes forced to attend detention together in ‘The Breakfast Club’ that just celebrated its 30th anniversary. However, the movie quickly transforms into its own modern-day phenom at a rapid pace
WATCH NOW When I was watching “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder”, I became nostalgic of the innocence found in “American Pie” where human semen was somehow baked into a pie. In “NatLamp”, dog semen is conveniently sprinkled on top a pastry. Are we simply biding our time until the protagonists of teenage gross-out comedies are implanting
WATCH NOW Nick Hornby deeply understands the nature of men, their perception of women and, most importantly, how women see them. His books inspired three delightful movies on the battle of the sexes: “High Fidelity” (2000), “About a Boy” (2002), and now, “Fever Pitch.” Their humor stems from a certain reality, and comes from deep
Fever Pitch (1997) Read More »
WATCH NOW Little Children takes the audience through the suburbs of America filled with violence, desire, and forgiveness in Field’s second film directed by Todd Field. The film is slated to release with Tár, which Field says has not yet premiered. The story is narrated from the eyes of Sarah (played by Kate Winslet) who
Little Children (2006) Read More »
WATCH NOW Regular readers will be aware that there’s no way in which I would leave a review of this film with just one word! I have to say, I was feeling a bit pretentious during the first few minutes of the movie, thinking that it might be a bit too artistic for a simple
A Single Man (2009) Read More »
WATCH NOW While waiting to hear back from a publisher for a possible manuscript titled, “Strangers On A Train”, Patricia Highsmith wrote a novel in 1949 on the relationship between a timid shopgirl and her much older housewife. This book, “The Price of Salt”, was later published in 1952, under a pseudonym. It is well-known
