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Movie Blog Post: THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE
Every time a movie like this comes out, I think Oh boy, another Holocaust movie. I feel the same way about a Slave Narratives. But then, inevitably the filmmaker finds a way to once again awaken you to the horrors of these inhumane atrocities in a new way...
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Movie Blog Post: MISS SLOANE
Sloane is always impeccably put together, but she's flawed: can't sleep, pops pills, pushes herself too the limit, expects too much from those around her and pays for sex
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Missing Ingredients: MAMA
As the preview screening of Guillermo del Toro’s horror film Mama, came closer and closer, the more I was tempted to cancel my reservation out of fear. As previously mentioned, I’m too susceptible to supernatural movies. I think it’s because I believe that ANYTHING no matter how far fetched or out of this world, is possible. And this open-mindedness, combined with living alone, can really set my imagination working over-time. But to my relief and disappointment. MAMA isn’t very scary. It’s creepy, and at times disturbing, but it certainly doesn’t have that melancholy, haunting, can’t shake it feeling of The Orphanage, nor is it darkly sinister. The movie is based…
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Commentary – THE DEBT
If our civilization continues into the 22nd Century and we evolve into beings who finally respect and view each other as equals; we undoubtedly will still be telling stories of these two most heinous times of our history – Slavery and the Holocaust. There are many societal, economical, historical and psychological reasoning’s for the continual re-examining of these atrocities; but artistically, every time these topics are seen through the eyes of new characters the story is looked at from yet another perspective. As such, is The Debt by director John Madden (Shakespeare In Love), based on the novel Ha-Hov by Assaf Bernstein and Ido Rosenblum. The Debt was my weekly…
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Commentary – THE TREE OF LIFE
“it is hardly a movie for the masses and will polarize even buffs, some of whom might fail to grasp the connection between the depiction of the beginnings of life on Earth and the travails of a 1950s Texas family.” – The Hollywood Reporter I left this film thinking what a crap role for Sean Penn, I suppose he’d only accept such a non-role from someone considered a mad genius, like Terrence Malick. I could not engage in the interminably long segment of the film that depicted scenes of nature’s glorious wonder, firmament and imagery of creation. I consider myself a spiritual person, but this was just frame after frame,…
