By Marie-Renee Goulet Are there movies that you are unable NOT to watch if you fall upon them while channel surfing? Films that feel like you just stepped into a leg hold trap, and you know you’ll have to sit there and (happily) finish it? I have a list of them. A few movies have…
By John H. Foote To begin, how is a fantasy different from a science fiction film? Granted there are cross overs, but fantasy cinema is defined as films which take the audience to the nether land, or bring about fantastical happenings, transcending the bounds of human possibility or the physical laws of nature. They often…
By Marie-Renee Goulet By far, one of the best Rock and Roll biographical movies ever made. “I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” – Jim Morrison Fresh off the success of Platoon (1986), Wall…
By John H. Foote (***) To watch this magnificent horse in full flight was a miracle, a thing of natural beauty. Four legs, powered by a great heart, a mass of muscle hurtling down the track towards the finish line, setting records in his wake, he is hailed as perhaps the greatest racehorse to ever…
By John H. Foote (****) Martin Sheen spent most of the seventies making made for television films, developing a loyal audience fascinated with the electrifying young actor. On the small screen he was brilliant in Sweet Hostage (1974) opposite Linda Blair, and The Execution of Private Slovik (1974). He stunned critics with his haunted performance…
By John H. Foote (****) It is inconceivable to me that Kathryn Bigelow would win the Academy Award and the Directors Guild of America Award (DGA) for the fine war film The Hurt Locker (2009), then three years later actually surpass that achievement with Zero Dark Thirty (2012), be nominated again by the DGA, yet…
By John H. Foote (***) Can a film be undone by its final scene, by just the final 20 seconds? Can a mere 20 seconds ruin what has transpired for the previous two hours? No words are spoken, but a character re-appears, inexplicably, who we thought dead (who has no business being alive!) and goes…
By Marie-Renee Goulet The movie is based on the true story of Harvard Law graduate Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan). After declining lucrative job offers, he uses a federal grant to open a legal defense office in Alabama with the help of a local activist Eva Ansley (the brilliant Brie Larson). They run in many…
By John H. Foote (****) To be straight from the very beginning of this piece, Kevin Bacon portrays Walter, a pedophile just released from prison trying to make a life for himself. It is a very demanding, often difficult and uncomfortable film, but brilliant in its depiction of a man cast out from society by…
By John H. Foote (****) To begin, let me get the hornets’ nest out of the way. I do not believe a word of the bile that has spewed from the mouth and mind of Mia Farrow for the last 25 years about Woody Allen supposedly assaulting his daughter, the now grow Dylan. Understand I…