Film Archives: 11/2015

“At best, this early 50s Irish emigrant tale rivals any beautiful Hallmark greeting card but the chick flick screenplay remains unabashedly bathetic.” If many men…

Terrorism from an unfamiliar perspective. This is a film about the development of a young terrorist, as he moves from a vaguely angry and confused…

“Informative history of women’s suffrage movement but composite character protagonist is pure agitprop.” For those who are unfamiliar with the history of the women’s suffrage…

Dalton Trumbo, the subject of this film biography, is famous for two things: being regarded as the best and most successful Hollywood screenwriter of all…

It’s standard fare time again for 007. As usual, poker-faced muscle man Daniel Craig acquits himself nicely as James Bond in the stunts department but…

A review.

Two Films on Obedience to AuthorityExperimenter (2015, Director: Michael Almereyda)The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015, Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez) In 2015, two films were released which…

What motivated Steven Spielberg to go ahead and take on a project such as “Bridge of Spies?” I’ve read that it was simply his nostalgia…

In Remember, a Canadian-German collaboration, director Atom Egoyan takes a new direction as far as subject matter, dealing with the few, elderly, remaining victims of…

“Director Boyle and Screenwriter Sorkin are guilty of celebrity worship in their fanciful portrait of “tech guru” Jobs.” Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin…

Most popular music fans have some idea of Brian Wilson’s life story. After great success as the driving force behind The Beach Boys, he branched…