Becoming Jane
Over the last few years Jane Austen's life and very respected library of works have received a lot of attention in cinema. We have "Pride and Prejudice", "The Hours", "Miss Potter" and many others, in fact I recently [...]
Reviews
Saw IV: Unrated Director's Cut
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for previous "Saw" movies. Readers who have not seen these films may not wish to read further. The "Saw" franchise has proudly set itself as the premier model of the so-called [...]
Celine Dion: A New Day
Celine Dion emerged in the nineties as one of the top selling female vocalists in history, her albums often receive mixed critical reviews and are certainly not to some people's tastes. Her vocal range is still quite stunning, even if her French [...]
Mr. Woodcock
In 2007 Craig Gillespie delivered two films, one was a critically acclaimed film called "Lars And The Real Girl" and the other being the comedy "Mr. Woodcock". While at first glance, the film appears to have something going for it, [...]
Margot at the Wedding
In the years since her great box office success in "Moulin Rouge!" and "The Others, " Nicole Kidman has seen a steady decline in mainstream popularity as she has opted for smaller films, such as "Dogville" and [...]
The Jane Austen Book Club
Robin Swicard's first commercial feature film "The Jane Austin Book Club" is one of those films some people would hesitate picking up based on the title and perhaps the boxcover. Especially, like myself, if you aren't familiar with the [...]
Jean-Luc Godard Box Set
In the late 1950s and 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard was one of the pioneers of the French New Wave, a movement in French cinema that emphasized naturalism over classical cinematic form and broke away from conventional structure with innovative and daring [...]
30 Days Of Night
We've certainly in the last few years seen quite a few comic book and graphic novel interpretations hit the big screen, some quite successful and some others not quite so. "30 Days Of Night" is the latest film version of a series of comics [...]
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Although Orson Welles is frequently cited as the grandfather of American independent cinema, his contemporary Val Lewton deserves just as much credit for showing what could be done with very little money. In the 1940s, Lewton produced a series of [...]