Written by Mike WhiteDirected by Miguel Arteta Life changes happen for a variety of reasons. Normally, a person reaches a time of one’s life and decides that they either haven’t achieved what […]
Movie Review: The Good Girl – A Good Little Film
The Hunting of the President – Setting up the Dividing Line
Written by Joe Conason, Gene Lyons, Nickolas Perry, and Harry ThomasonDirected by Nickolas Perry and Harry Thomason The first time I viewed the film The Hunting of the President (based on the […]
Movie Review: Dances With Wolves – One of the First Honest Portrayals of Native Americans in Film
Written by Michael BlakeDirected by Kevin Costner The story of the Native Americans as written by the movie industry over the last hundred years or so was mostly one of savagery where […]
Movie Review: Lathe of Heaven – A Cryptic Science Fiction Tale That Had Much More Potential
Written by Ursula K. LeGuin and Alan SharpDirected by Philip Haas Every now and then I come across a film that leaves me with mixed feelings and frustrated. Lathe of Heaven is […]
Movie Review: Scrooged – A Twisted, Sarcastic, Semi-Modern Take on a Christmas Classic
Written by Mitch Glazer, Michael O’Donoghue, and Charles DickensDirected by Richard Donner A few weeks before Christmas last year, I went to the store and looked at the newest releases on blu-ray. […]
Movie Review: Brubaker – The Arkansas Prison System Exposed by One Man
Written by W.D. Richter, Arthur Ross, Thomas O. Murton, Joe Hyams, and Bob RafelsonDirected by Stuart Rosenberg Once upon a time in Arkansas, there was a prison ripe with corruption. Inmates were […]
Movie Review: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House – I Really Don’t Want to Relate to This!
Written by Eric Hodgins, Norman Panama, and Melvin FrankDirected by H.C. Potter At the suggestion of a fellow writer, I rented this movie to see how it compared to what I was […]
Movie Review: Anywhere But Here – Another in the Long Line of Films About Mothers and Daughters
Written by Mona Simpson and Alvin SargentDirected by Wayne Wang Being the mother of a teenager is never easy. As is often the case, mothers and teenage girls tend to clash often […]
Movie Review: Red Heat – A Cop-Buddy Film With a Commie Twist
Written by Walter Hill, Harry Kleiner, and Troy Kennedy-MartinDirected by Walter Hill I don’t know whether or not it worked against the film Red Heat was released in 1988. Communism was crumbling […]
Movie Review – Captain America: The First Avenger – It’s Always Been Right to Punch Nazis
Written by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Joe Simon, and Jack KirbyDirected by Joe Johnston There will never be anything like the Marvel Cinematic Universe again. Over the course of more than a […]
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