Category Archives: Movie Reviews

photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics Cache (Hidden), the latest film by director Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher), could not have better timing for a limited American release: a French couple anxiously wonder why they���re receiving unmarked videotapes with surveillance of … Continue reading →

Director Terrence Malick weaves a tapestry thick with depth and symbolism around a strong narrative and characters that jump off the screen, with the help of a fantastic young talent as Pocahontas. The New World is about discovery, internal and external, and easily one of the best films of 2005.
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photo courtesy Miramax A mustached Pierce Brosnan walks through a hotel lobby wearing only a speedo, beer can in hand, gut hanging out, cigarette drooping out of the side of his smirk. The other guests stare, almost horrified, and obviously … Continue reading →

photo courtesy Twentieth Century Fox This movie straight sucked… now go and see it! Considering all the critics bashing it after it came out, its no wonder that the films production company decided against sending it to reviewers before it … Continue reading →

photo courtesy Dreamworks Pictures We do not control our own lives, luck does. That is what Woody Allen would like us to remember when we begin our journey into Match Point. Match Point stars Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as ex-tennis player Chris … Continue reading →

photo courtesy Paradise Filmworks Naked in Ashes is a documentary dedicated to the yogis, or Hindu mystics, of India. These holy men carry on a 5,000 year-old ascetic tradition, denying the needs of the body for the sake of spiritual … Continue reading →

photo courtesy Arrival Pictures The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it That is … Continue reading →

photo courtesy Winterfilm Collective Operation Eagle Pull lifted the last Americans off the roof of the American Embassy in Vietnam seven years before I was born. As soon as I could comprehend combat, Vietnam interested me more than any other … Continue reading →