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THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

November 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT is an elegantly realized intellectual thriller which considers not only the eternal struggle between art and commerce, but also the effect of personalities on inventing the future. In this case, three visionaries, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla. Each with a particular kind of genius, each with idiosyncrasies… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, alternating current, based on a true story, direct current, Edison, electricity, J.P. Morgan, technology, Tesla, Westinghouse

HARRIET

October 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HARRIET

HARRIET achieves the proper, and richly deserved, tone of reverence for its subject, Harriet Tubman. That is, alas, its greatest failing. The astonishing life of one of the most courageous Americans who has ever lived is told in a series of set pieces, vignettes with all drama sapped from them as they take on the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, based on a true story, Philadelpha, racism, slavery, underground railway

OFFICIAL SECRETS — Gavin Hood Interview

October 23, 2019 By Leave a Comment

OFFICIAL SECRETS — Gavin Hood Interview

Gavin Hood is no stranger to political filmmaking. He won the Oscar™ for TSOTSI, about the question of race in his native South Africa, and in what should have been and Oscar™-nominated turn with EYE IN THE SKY, he brought home the human toll of drone warfare in the Middle East. With OFFICIAL SECRETS, he… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Official Secrets Act, whistleblower

HUSTLERS

September 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HUSTLERS

HUSTLERS is about as subtle as a pole dance when it comes to making a case for the poetic justice of what a gang of strippers did to the very Wall Street bankers who plunged the country into financial chaos back in 2008. And that is how it should be. The script written by director… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, hustling, pole dance, strip club, strippers, Wall Street

BRIAN BANKS

August 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

BRIAN BANKS

BRIAN BANKS is an earnest film that hits all the necessary and expected plot points as it makes its cogent indictment of the criminal justice system. It never becomes a screed, though the based-on-a-true story of 16-year-old who ended up serving time for a rape he didn’t commit certainly has all the elements to support… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, California Innocence Project, Enlightenment, football, justice system, parole office, plea bargain, rape

RED JOAN

April 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

RED JOAN

Science is pure.  A hypothesis is either true or it isn’t and the scientific method can be used, unfailingly, to prove it.  Politics and human emotions are another story, as we learn in RED JOAN, a drama of that most potent mixture, love and politics. Based on a true story, it considers questions of loyalty… Read More »

Tagged With: atomic secrets, based on a true story, Cambridge, espionage, Official Secrets Act, World War II

MAZE

April 5, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MAZE

There is a distinct strain of melancholy nihilism throughout Stephen Burke’s MAZE. Based on the 1983 prison break by 38 inmates of the eponymous maximum security prison in Norther Ireland, it mixes the suspense of plotting an escape dependant upon split-second timing from an inescapable prison with the psychological games the prisoners play with the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, hunger strike, IRA, Ireland, prison break

HOTEL MUMBAI

March 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HOTEL MUMBAI

Full of unexpected compassion and humanity, HOTEL MUMBAI is also a harrowing retelling of the 2008 takeover of the fabled Taj Hotel in Mumbai by terrorists whose zeal for religion had been twisted into something horrifying. The standard meet-and-greet of the people whose lives will shortly be forever changed is the only part of the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, fanaticism, India, Mumbai, police action, swat team, terrorism

WELCOME TO MARWEN

December 25, 2018 By Leave a Comment

WELCOME TO MARWEN

There is little that tugs more insistently at my heartstrings, cinematically at least, than a film that genuinely means well and falls short. And so it is with WELCOME TO MARWEN, a showcase of CGI and of Steve Carrell’s dramatic chops, but of little else. The story is based on the life of Mark Hogencamp,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, brain damage, fantasy world, hate crime

THE FRONT RUNNER

November 21, 2018 By 1 Comment

THE FRONT RUNNER

a thoughtful, anarchically lively, film about the obligations of the candidate and the responsibilities of the press that force us to question both

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, ethics, Gary Hart, politics, presidential race, scandal

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