Foreign
International Foreign Movies: European, Latin, Asian, African, and Indian Films
Fences Movie Review
January 12, 2017Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. Fences is unapologetically theatrical, in everything from its truly towering performances to its scant settings, elongated structure, and heavy use of metaphors and drama. Considering […]
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First Look: Emma Watson Makes the Perfect Belle in Her Iconic Gown
November 3, 2016Ever since announcing that Emma Watson would play Belle in its live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Disney has kept the production tightly under wraps. Pretty much all the first poster and teaser gave us to work with was an image of the enchanted rose and some twinkling snowflakes. But now the wait is over: Entertainment Weekly has released a first look […]
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Doctor Strange Review2016(Video)
October 31, 2016Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the fourteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Scott Derrickson, who wrote the screenplay with C. Robert Cargill […]
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2016 Best Movie Review: Moonlight– One Movie You Need to See This Month
October 21, 2016To describe “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s second feature, as a movie about growing up poor, black and gay would be accurate enough. It would also not be wrong to call it a movie about drug abuse, mass incarceration and school violence. But those classifications are also inadequate, so much as to be downright misleading. It […]
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Movie Review-“Desert Cathedral”: Avant-Garde filmmaking at it’s most fascinating.
October 13, 2016The freshly wide-released and most unconventionally presented docudrama “Desert Cathedral” seemed to offer some of my very favorite facets of film. These are in no particular order of preference: suspense, drama, a darkish theme, an enigmatic and sparingly speaking main character and the vast wide open spaces of the American west. Having seen this remarkable […]
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Oscars at a Glance: What Films Look to be Early Contenders?
October 12, 2016A lot of people are looking ahead and trying to debate which films are looking forward to Oscar glory that we have nearly four months to wait until the 89th Academy Awards,I have always had a fascination with the competition aspect of the Oscars, yes, but also the celebration of film aspect that so many people […]
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2016 Denial movie review
October 10, 2016It’s a concept that is inconceivable to Americans-Greetings again from the darkness, Guilty until proven innocent, yet it’s the core of British Law in libel cases. When once respected British historian David Irving accused American scholar and educator Deborah Lipstadt of libel, based on her book that accused him of being a Holocaust denier, the […]
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Introducting and Reviewing OF The BRIDGE OF SPIES
July 4, 2016Starring: Tom Hanks (Donovan); Mark Rylance (Abel); Amy Ryan (Mrs Donovan); Alan Alda (Watters) Screenplay: Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen Director: Steven Spielberg Rating: 12A It’s 1957: the height of the Cold War in America while all that stands between Rudolf Abel and death is an insurance lawyer from Brooklyn.It is clear that […]
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Reviewing Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
May 17, 2016Papa: Hemingway in Cuba is a 2015 Canadian-American film. The biographical drama film was filmed in Havana, Cuba, directed by Bob Yari and written by Denne Bart Petitclerc. The film is based on events from Ernest Hemingway’s life in Havana in the 1950s, and on a friendship that developed there between Hemingway and Petitclerc, who […]
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Reviewing The Magnificent Seven
May 9, 2016The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, and Horst Buchholz. The picture is an Old West-style remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese-language film Seven Samurai. Brynner, McQueen, Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and Brad Dexter portray the title characters, […]
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Reviewing Our Little Sister
April 28, 2016Our Little Sister Hepburn: Umimachi Diary, lit. “Seaside town diary”) is a 2015 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, starring Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho and Suzu Hirose. It tells the story of three sisters in their 20s who live together in Kamakura, and are joined by their 14-year-old half sister after their father dies. […]
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The Hateful Eight
April 6, 2016The Hateful Eight is a 2015 American western mystery film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover some time after the American […]
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