Let me be clear…I hated this movie. Hated it. With the exception of a couple of fine performances it is an insane mess of a film from beginning to end. I hated it. Harrison Ford IS Han Solo. It is ridiculous to suggest anyone else could do the role, and do justice to what he…
By John H. Foote It was 8:30 am in June, 1998, when a small group of film critics, myself included were ushered into the old Uptown Theatre, one of Toronto’s greatest movie palaces. The cinema was cold, outside the sun already blazed in the stifling city heat. The publicist gravely, unsmiling handed us our press…
A few years ago Robert Redford gave a great, near silent performance in All is Lost (2013) as a man left near dead in the middle of the ocean after a violent storm destroys his vessel. The New York Film Critics awarded their actor Best Actor for his superb physical performance in what was one…