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Latest Reviews
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La Misma Sangre, a mystery thriller from Argentina, evokes memories of Japan’s Rashomon and Hollywood’s The Little Foxes, two of my favorite movies. In Rashomon, different people recount their versions of a murder story; and in The Little...
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Bad news: Toy Story 4 is Pixar’s biggest money grab to date. Good news: This is Pixar, so it never feels like one. It is not a stretch to say that the company couldn’t make a bad movie if it tried. After all, none of its films have failed to pull in less...
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French Canadian director Denys Arcand is a man who does everything on his films: he writes, directs, and tells everybody what to do and where to do it. He has achieved international success, including the Best Foreign Film Academy Award ® for The Barbarian Invasions (2004) and an...
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From its shocking beginning to its emotionally powerful conclusion, Two Ways Home grabs your heart and won’t let go. The story follows Kathy, a woman living with a bi-polar disorder, who returns to her farm home in Iowa after being arrested and spending time in jail for...
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Latest Features
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I was very excited to receive the 25th Anniversary Blu-ray DVD release of Forrest Gump from Paramount Pictures because it was a great film in 1994. Paramount chose the right director in Robert Zemeckis as well as two amazing writers Winston Groom and Eric Roth plus excellent...
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Below are more soundtrack poems of recent and archival releases.
8 1/2 (Nino Rota, 1963) *** The journey from first story concept to post-production can involve a leap of faith. Burdened by studio demands for success as well as their own ambitions,...
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Grab-Bag Review
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It’s been some time since a truly seductive romance has appeared on the big screen, so the arrival of Chéri, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend, has much to live up to. Director Stephen Frears re-teamed with screenwriter...
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