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THE LITTLE THINGS

January 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE LITTLE THINGS

THE LITTLE THINGS, or to be precise, “the little things” is a well-thought-out film, and if putting a film together with the pre-fab precision of a Lego® sculpture were all it took to make a great flick, such it would be. Alas, the overweening self-conscious sense of profundity fails to convince even the most willing… Read More »

Tagged With: guilty secrets, LAPD, murders, police detectives, serial killer

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

April 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

Nick Broomfield makes documentaries that seek the truth and report it without fear or favor to anyone. There is no better example of what he does, and why it makes for such compelling cinema, than TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, which takes on the reasons why a 25-year killing spree by the eponymous serial killer… Read More »

Tagged With: Anitra Washington, backgammon, Barney Broomfield, Christine Pelisek, Christopher Franklin, corruption, DNA testing, documentary, Grim Sleeper murders, incarceration rates, LA Weekly, LAPD, Lonnie Franklin, movie, NHI, Nick Broomfield, No Human Involved, orange pinto, Pam Brooks, peckerwood, racism, serial killer, South Central Los Angeles, TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, Tiffany Haddish, true crime

THE CHANGELING

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE CHANGELING

THE CHANGELING, directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, is based on a true story so Kafka-esque that it staggers the imagination. In March of 1928, Christine Collins came home from work to discover her nine-year-old son, Walter, was missing. Her call to the Los Angeles police for help was rebuffed because the boy hadn’t been… Read More »

Tagged With: 1928, based on a true story, LAPD, missing child, psychiatric ward

Idris Elba and TAKERS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Idris Elba and TAKERS

Idris Elba has several thriving careers going for him, not the least of which is giving powerful performances in both feature films and on television. When I spoke with him on August 8, 2010, he explained how his career in music informs his thespian efforts, how and why he wanted to make his TAKERS character, a daring… Read More »

Tagged With: action, actor, Africa, cinema, crime thriller, DJBig Driis the Londoner, drama, film, hip-hop, Idris Elba, LAPD, Luther, movie, music producer, Rwanda, Rwandan genocide, SOMETIMES IN APRIL, TAKERS, The Office, The Wire

Michael Pena & Natalie Martinez Take the END OF WATCH

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Michael Pena & Natalie Martinez Take the END OF WATCH

END OF WATCH is anything but a typical cop flick. Written and directed by David Ayers of TRAINING DAY fame, it makes an edgy, gritty, and engrossing film about cops, played by Michael Pena and Jake Gyllenhaal, who are neither corrupt, as in TRAINING DAY, nor of the rogue variety that are out for their own brand of… Read More »

Tagged With: action, America Ferrara, Anna Kendrick, crying on cue, David Ayers, drama, LAPD, marital happiness, Michael Pena, Natalie Martinez, thriller

CRASH With Ryan Phillppe and Paul Haggis

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CRASH With Ryan Phillppe and Paul Haggis

CRASH represents a sea change in careers moves for many of the people involved, not the least director and co-writer Paul Haggis, a veteran of television sitcoms. The provocative story of anger, fear, and race relations in contemporary Los Angeles also provides Ryan Phillippe with one of his best roles in years, maybe the best… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, cinema, class struggle, CRASH, director, drama, face of an angel, film, LAPD, Los Angeles, movie, narrative, Paul Haggis, prejudice, provocative, race relations, Ryan Phillipe, suspense, writer

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