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LAST BREATH

February 27, 2025 By Leave a Comment

LAST BREATH

There is something deeply satisfying in watching James Bond or Batman engage in preternatural maneuvers when bringing supervillains to heel. There is something even more deeply satisfying about watching ordinary people rising to the occasion when confronted with an overwhelming crisis, and Alex Parkinson’s LAST BREATH, based on a true story, is a perfectly executed… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, deep sea dive, North Sea, snagged umbilical, tech gone wrong, underwater pipeline

THE APPRENTICE

November 4, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE APPRENTICE

THE APPRENTICE takes as its focus the relationship between Roy Cohn and the young and hungry Donald Trump of the 1970s. This would be the callow Trump who was stifled by the long shadow cast by his father, Fred (Martin Donovan), and the utter cluelessness about how to play an all too easily rigged system… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, blackmail, emotionally crippled, fascism, greed, New York City, politics

BACK TO BLACK

May 15, 2024 By Leave a Comment

BACK TO BLACK

Any success enjoyed by the Amy Winehouse biopic, BACK TO BLACK, rests squarely on the frail shoulders of the actress playing the singer, Marisa Abela. With an outsized presence like Winehouse herself, Abela channels Winehouse’s violence and vulnerability, making her at once a lost little girl and a musical powerhouse who refused to be pigeonholed… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, bulimia, drug addiction, guzzling vodka, jazz, music

ONE LIFE — James Hawes Interview

March 17, 2024 By 1 Comment

ONE LIFE — James Hawes Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. ONE LIFE had been in pre-production for many years before finally premiering now in 2024. When I spoke with its director, James Hawes, via Zoom on March 13, 2024, I couldn’t help but ask him if he thought there was some sort of synchronicity at work with the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Czechoslovakia, Nazi, Nicholas Winton, Refugee, World War II

FERRARI

January 7, 2024 By Leave a Comment

FERRARI

FERRARI is an exceptional immersive experience. Not just for the way it virtually puts you in the driver’s seat during the racing sequences, but also, and moreso, for the way it puts you in the mind of its title character as he negotiates a major turning point in his life. Michael Mann’s opus about the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1957, auto racing, based on a true story, mistress, racing car manufacturing, secret family

THE IRON CLAW

December 26, 2023 By Leave a Comment

THE IRON CLAW

Click here to listen to the flashback interview with Sean Durkin for MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. It would be too easy to pigeonhole THE IRON CLAW as a gloss on toxic masculinity in our culture. To be sure, that element is mightily present in Sean Durkin’s poetic tale of fathers and sons. Based on the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1980s, based on a true story, brothers, championship, depression, emotional abuse, Texas, wrestling

PRISCILLA

November 5, 2023 By Leave a Comment

PRISCILLA

Rumor has it that the late Lisa Marie Presley was so incensed by the characterization of her father in Sofia Coppola’s PRISCILLA that she vowed to actively denounce the film. This despite the cooperation of her mother, who is also the film’s subject, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley. Further, Elvis Presley Enterprises did not sign off on… Read More »

Tagged With: arm candy, based on a true story, bed warmer. loneliness, Elvis Presley, male gaze, Priscilla Presley, sensory overload

RADICAL — Eugenio Derbez Interview

November 4, 2023 By Leave a Comment

RADICAL — Eugenio Derbez Interview

Click here to listen to the interview with Eugenio Derbez. Click here to listen to the interview with co-writer Joshua Davis. RADICAL won the Sundance Festival Favorite Award, and the Mill Valley Overall Favorite. It’s no mystery why. Based on the story of Serio Juarez Correa’s, ahem, radical approach to teaching 12-year-olds in the putatively… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, bonding with kids, creative license, displacement, education, learning, Matamoros, Mexico, potential, Richard Wong, teaching, The Radical Fund, The Valet

RADICAL — Joshua Davis Interview

November 2, 2023 By Leave a Comment

RADICAL — Joshua Davis Interview

Click here to listen to the interview with Joshua Davis. Click here to listen to the interview with Eugenio Derbez. Josh Davis has had a storied career writing on topics as diverse as competitive arm wrestling (he also competed), life behind enemy lines in Iraq, and the legal problems of tech mogul George McAfee, getting… Read More »

Tagged With: arm wrestling, based on a true story, Kyle MacLachlan, learning, Matamoros, Mexico, Paloma Noyola Bueno, podcast, Project Base Learning, Sergio Juárez Correa, slow journalism, standardized testing, teaching, Varnamtown, Welcome to Varnamtown

GRAN TURISMO

August 30, 2023 By Leave a Comment

GRAN TURISMO

You have to wade through a great deal of treacle in GRAN TURISMO before you get to part of the film that really works. Based (very loosely) on the true story of the gamer who became a race car driver, the first act plays like a very well executed cliché, albeit with a superbly edited… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, car racing, Gran Turismo, smarmy sociopath, video game, Wales

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