Archived Results for June 2009[ 2009 ][ Jan ][ Feb ][ Mar ][ Apr ][ May ][ Jun ][ Jul ][ Aug ][ Sep ][ Oct ][ Nov ][ Dec ]
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The reality of Adolf Hitler's final solution (the extermination of the Jews) is explored through the eyes of an eight year old German Boy, Bruno.
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This film about immigration: legal and illegal is set in southern California, and involves representatives of many of the nationalities that inhabit this multicultural city.
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"Revolutionary Road" deals realistically with the issue of mental illness and how it is most often unsuccessfully integrated into society.
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The Return of the Story Teller (He's 62 and he still has the "chops" to keep his audience well entertained) As a young man, settling into my new life in North Carolina's Triangle, I would take my young wife to see whatever shows were available within two hours drive of our one bedroom walk-up. While
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The complexity of international intrigue, in regards to the funding the some truly bad people, has the intermittent light of truth shown upon it, and nearly all remain blind to the evil.
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"It's Not Personal, Sonny. It's Strictly Business" This is the line Al Pacino, as Michael, delivered to his oldest brother, Santino Corleone, and Tom Haden in the "The Godfather" when Don Vito lay near death and Michael, because of his father's demise, was being drawn deeper into the family business
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Therefore the premise of this film is to take a position that the collective interpersonal relationships between men and women are not that complex, that men and women have separate rules that govern their relative perspective on the reality of their individual sociological perspectives fitting into that great market of meat...
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A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
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The North Carolina Museum of Art may Metamorphous into a Fabulous Museum of Art. As a long term resident, of the "Old North State," who has paid more than his share of state income taxes, I can only ask: Why has it taken so long? Up until the point of the museum's probable and miraculous metamorphou
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As Harvey Shine, Hoffman brings to the stage a rumpled, humble, little man, who has been passed over at many points in his life, and is resolved to retain his dignity in his pursuit of an otherwise purposeful life.
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Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
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The sadness associated with a terrible loss can be the undoing of some and the rebirth of others. In "Incendiary," the young mother may experience a bit of both in this morality play that endeavors to investigate the twin brothers of terrible human loss and the random, insane acts of Muslim terrorists under the command of Osama bin Laden.
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"Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade, I Call it a Kaiser Blade." This line, spoken by Karl Childers, explains the farm implement that he used to kill his white trash mother and her lover 25 years earlier, when he was still an adolescent. After 25 years in a mental institution (Karl calls it "the nervou
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Tuvia was a Jew, who had just lost his family in the initial genocide perpetrated by the Waffen SS in Belorussia. As he, and his three brothers struggled to survive in the forest, they encountered other Jews, dispossessed of their homes and their families, and in dire need of aid.
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La Cosa Nostra or Family First? The best film of 1972 was Mario Puzo's widely read novel turned Oscar Winning film, "The Godfather," and that year they got it right. This great film, directed in the perfect tones of an extraordinary classic by Francis Ford Cappola, was the initial chapter in the tri
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