Written by William Styron and Alan J. PakulaDirected by Alan J. Pakula Alan J. Pakula directed this masterpiece based on a book by William Styron. As much as it’s a play on […]
Movie Review: Sophie’s Choice – Life Interrupted
Movie Review – Moonraker: James Bond #11 – Nearly the End of the Franchise
Written by Ian Fleming, Christopher Wood, Gerry AndersonDirected by Lewis Gilbert For years, you could put me in the category of those who didn’t consider themselves James Bond fans. Back when I […]
Movie Review: He Got Game – Everyone Wants a Piece of Jesus
Written by Spike LeeDirected by Spike Lee I’m not really a basketball fan, so I somewhat avoided seeing Spike Lee’s He Got Game for years. After finally viewing it, I’m sorry that […]
Movie Review: River’s Edge – What If Someone Was Murdered and No One Cared?
Written by Neal JiminezDirected by Tim Hunter I have a general worry about this country that we as a society have lost any sense of empathy for anyone outside of our own […]
Movie Review: Unfaithful (2002) – Everything Falls Apart Then I Get to Put It Back Together
Written by Claude Chabrol, Alvin Sargent, and William Broyles Jr.Directed by Adrian Lyne What makes a marriage fall apart? For many people, there’s no definitive answer – no moment when things change […]
Movie Review: Smoke Signals (1998) – Sometimes It’s a Good Day to Have Breakfast
Written by Sherman AlexieDirected by Chris Eyre The headlines are filled with the virtues of the various blockbuster films out there. For me, I prefer the sleeper films that come along with […]
Movie Review: The Ground Truth – “Nothing Matters Until It Happens To You”
The Ground Truth is an interesting documentary that will hopefully give insight into the experience of a modern-day soldier. It’s not preaching to its audience, but rather giving the soldiers a voice […]
Movie Review: Don’t Look Now – Do Take a Look at This Film
Written by Daphne du Marier, Allan Scott, and Chris BryantDirected by Nicolas Roeg What happens to a family when tragedy strikes? Before Donald Sutherland would explore this topic with Mary Tyler Moore […]
Movie Review: Religulous – Where Bill Maher Empowers the Anti-Intelligence Conservatives
I am presenting this as I wrote it in 2010. It’s even more true now, and I think a lot less of Maher now than I did when I wrote this. Let […]
Movie Review: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming – Laughter Abounds in This Cold War Misadventure
Written by Nathaniel Benchley and William RoseDirected by Norman Jewison For a generation that’s been pretty much removed from all of the hysteria we lived through during the Cold War, it might […]
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