One thing you can learn from "Shipping News" is how to spin a story. In a poignant segment early in the movie, Quoyle is taught how to create a headline for a story – "Imminent Storm Threatens Village!" It’s appropriate, as a [...]
"Hannibal, " both the Thomas Harris novel and Ridley Scott’s film adaptation, returns everyone’s favorite corprophagist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to the public eye. A decade ago, "Silence of the Lambs" beat the odds in adapting [...]
Four years after "Jurassic Park" first hit theaters and wowed audiences, Steven Spielberg returned to direct the sequel to the first blockbuster, also based on a novel by Michael Crichton. As a matter of fact the entire creative team behind [...]
"Boogie Nights" was 1997’s sleeper hit, a movie that caught the industry by surprise and earned one of its stars, Burt Reynolds, an Academy Award nomination. It is director Paul Thomas Anderson’s second feature movie, and as such displays an [...]
In the world of Hollywood commercialism where every movie is "artificially designed" to appeal to audiences rather than be a true expression of a filmmakers’ vision, it is rare to find films these days that are noticeably extroverted and [...]
’The Myth Of Fingerprints’ is a family drama with big emotions. Carefully written and directed by Bart Freundlich, the movie encapsulates everything you can image in an empathetic modern family story. It has romantic moments, deeply emotional and is [...]
"Boogie Nights" was 1997’s sleeper hit, a movie that caught the industry by surprise and earned one of its stars, Burt Reynolds, an Academy Award nomination. It is director Paul Thomas Anderson’s second feature movie, and as such displays an [...]
