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r This morning (Monday, Jan. 12) I was privileged to be part of a group of 7 film reviewers who met via Zoom with Paul Greenglass, director of the new Tom Hanks film NEWS OF THE WORLD. Look in on us on YouTube by clicking this. I think you’ll enjoy the film even more if …
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Unfolding in real time, this is the story of a pilot under pressure when terrorists hijack his airline on a flight from Berlin to Paris.
French Canadian filmmaker writer-director François Girard, who gave us the exquisite The Red Violin in 1998, gives us another film in which a violin is important. Instead of transpiring over several centuries, this film spans the years from Hitler’s invasion of Poland to the night of a concert in 1951 to the 80s when a …
The story of escaped slave Harriet Tubman who went back several times to rescue her family and other slaves.
Sam, daughter of a famous scientist, has stayed behind when almost everyone else fled to Io because of pollution, when she is visited by Micah who wants her & her father to leave.
Bounds of loyalty are tested when the son of a hit man sees his father & the boss’s son kill people, & the boss decides the young witness must be killed for the sake of safety.
Set on a lonely light house island, this is the story of the keeper & his wife, who after 2 miscarriages, decide to keep a baby they find in a life boat, but there are unintended dark consequences.
Le Chambon is the true story of a courageous French pastor and his village who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Click the image to read my entire review.
This surprising film truly did earn its Oscar and, now, the Criterion Collection is releasing it. Click the headline to read my entire review.
Tolstoy’s novel receives epic treatment from grand ball rooms in Moscow to bloody battlefields as we see the story of Pierre, Andrei & Natasha unfold.