They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for September, 2012
End of Watch (2012)
It is sort of a distressing trend that most police movies recently have featured cops who are rotten to the bone, men use their badge as leverage to steal drugs and money and to shake down young kids just to instill in them the fear of God. Whatever happened to the good old days when […]
Samsara (2012)
We have been told that there are six degrees of separation between us and every other person on this planet. The census conducted in 2000 revealed that our population had passed 7.4 billion. That is a lot of sixes to divide up. If you are in doubt about that theory, all you need to do […]
2016: Obama’s America
There may be no other president in American history that has brought about more speculation or more contention of opinion than Barak Hussein Obama. When the final history is written, the Obama administration will be looked on and studied for generations to come, perhaps for different reasons than most. Whether you believe that Obama was […]
Arbitrage (2012)
Richard Gere has always been a reliable actor, not consistently successful, but always reliable. He has a welcoming and handsome face that is easy to trust which makes him perfect to play men of complexities, especially those who beam with good-will in the daylight but whose souls contain dark shadows. He can play good guys […]
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (2012)
One of the problems with the recent attempts to adapt Dr. Seuss’ books into movies is Hollywood’s tendency to intrude upon his work with cute, snappy dialogue and slapstick comedy, and expand on appropriately thin material with gobs of hip-cool dialogue and needless subplots. Anyone familiar with Dr. Seuss’ books knows that this is completely […]
