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…
V
The weekly TV series that followed the first two miniseries showed the evil visitors making a dramatic comeback on Earth, reigniting the war; they were only hiding behind the moon.…
V: The Fourth Reich
Photo: NBC A major hit in several countries when first shown on TV, this miniseries frightened me to the degree that I could barely watch it. I was only nine…
Music Box
When Michael Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused of having committed war crimes in Hungary 40 years earlier, his daughter, attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange), decides to represent him. Another politically…
United 93: On a Penknife’s Edge
Photo: Universal On the same day that I first saw this movie, it was reported that British police had exposed a major plot to blow up several commercial airliners over…
Taxi Driver: Rough Justice
Robert De Niro. Photo: Columbia Travis Bickle can’t stand the streets of New York. He’s waiting for the rain that will wash the trash off the streets, all the thieves,…