Blowup: Don’t Analyze It to Death
Photo: MGM I saw this movie a couple of times when I was a film student and rediscovering it ten years later was a delight. Perhaps it is one of…
Hurt Locker: Explosive Experience
Photo: Summit Entertainment Doctors love to complain about movies that portray their line of work. So do cops, fire-fighters, journalists… and soldiers. Many Iraq War vets harbor contempt toward this…
Casablanca: You Must Remember This
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: Warner Casablanca was just another movie meant to bolster the spirit of American audiences at a time when the nation had just entered an…
Clockwork Orange: Hanging With Your Droogs
Malcolm McDowell. Photo: Warner Author Anthony Burgess allegedly complained that this film adaptation of his novel became so talked-about that it overshadowed everything else he did. Director Stanley Kubrick's film…
All the President’s Men: Exposing a CREEP
Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. Photo: Warner When I was in journalism school, I took a course in investigative journalism. That particular genre is still the finest you can do…
When Darkness Falls
Three stories are told concurrently: Nina (Bahar Pars) tries to escape the cultural stranglehold that her family’s patriarch has on her; successful journalist Carina (Lia Boysen) tries to cover up…
Girl with Hyacinths: Secrets and Lies
Eva Henning and Anders Ek. Photo: Terrafilm In this time and age, it’s pretty much impossible to write a review of Hasse Ekman’s most accomplished film without talking about the…
V: The Final Battle
The resistance against the alien visitors grows stronger but the group needs a breakthrough; meanwhile, Robin's (Blair Tefkin) affair with an alien officer has startling effects. The sequel to V…
JFK: Watch Responsibly
Photo: Warner Some time after the premiere of Oliver Stone’s JFK, Roger Ebert ran into Walter Cronkite and received a “tongue-lashing” for having praised the film. In Cronkite’s view, it was full…
GoodFellas: Married to the Mob
Photo: Warner Making GoodFellas a horribly realistic film took its toll. Joe Pesci had qualms about playing such an evil character as Tommy DeVito and Lorraine Bracco started thinking of…