Film Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
byThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, is both emotionally raw and hilariously irreverent. And despite its somewhat cumbersome title,…
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Film Review: Everest (2015)
byEverest is based on best-selling book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, a member of the 1996 expedition, a character in the film and…
Film Review: Lincoln (2012)
byDaniel Day-Lewis has once again created another legendary performance, embodying Lincoln with tremendous grace and tenderness. Day-Lewis intensely inhabits the character most impressively with his voice, rarely raised above a calm and collected tone. Though no recordings of Lincoln’s voice existed – having died a short time before Edison’s phonograph was invented – it feels safe to say that Day-Lewis nails it.
Film Review: The Sessions (2012)
byBased on a 1990 article written by the real Mark O’Brien, entitled On Seeing A Sex Surrogate, The Sessions is a film about a physically…
Trailer Trash: The Sessions (2012)
bySynopsis: Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, THE SESSIONS tells the story of a man confined to…
Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
byThe intriguing title of Martha Marcy May Marlene refers to the various names attributed to a single character, a young woman played by Elizabeth…