Jesse Eisenberg is winning as the WWII heroic actor. In a vein of “Schindler’s List” and “Life is Beautiful,” “Resistance” is a WWII movie that’s based on the true story of how […]
Resistance
Delicatessen, The City Lost Children, and Amelie
French cinema at its goofiest and dazzling level. I really passion the bizarre and wacky humor and visual world of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a French filmmaker, who provides us some of the […]
Braveheart
The film that gave Mel Gibson 2 Oscars turns 25 “Braveheart” would have its 25th anniversary showing in theaters, if not for the coronavirus closing them down, but still we should honor […]
Cotton Club, 1900, Night Moves, MacBeth, Marvin Gardens, and Miami Blues
Polanksi, De Niro, Coppola, Baldwin, Nicholson, and Hackman-all part of some past selections. A friend of mine has loaned me some of his DVDs from his collection, and given our Coronavirus nightmare […]
The Banker
Give it up for Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson as the bankers who helped changed the rules. When you see recent period movies about African-Americans breaking all the rules, like in […]
Big Time Adolescence
A coming-of-age Hulu comedy about a good kid under bad influences. In “Big Time Adolescence,” we meet a high school kid named Mo Harris (Griffin Gluck) hanging out with his best friend-the […]
How to Survive a Virus Flick
The virus movies that frightened us or drove us crazy. The Coronavirus or COVID-19 has not only cancelled a variety of movie events from SXSW to Tribeca and postponed select movies (“No […]
Hope Gap
Divorcing is such sweet sorrow for Bening and Nighy. I’ve seen another artisan film called “The Truth,” which barely talks about its characters’ problems, and left me uninterested. It never seemed to […]
I Still Believe
This Christian drama has heart, but not enough faith. I don’t attend much Christian dramas, because of they lately present themselves with their bad acting, negative writing, and silly filmmaking. I believe […]
The Way Back
Ben Affleck explodes inside and outside the basketball court. Ben Affleck has struggled with alcoholism and rehab in the past, and his latest entry, “The Way Back,” resonates with those former issues, […]
