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The film "Knowing" uses the science fiction genre to introduce either theme that are plausible, in these days as our civilization struggles to rediscover its collective soul.
The Lorax: It is a film for the ages ... well, at least for all ages under the age of eight.
Director Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" into the fantastic film "Hugo" was a brilliant stroke of passion for the edgy director of quite a few gritty, pathologically viotent films, such as: "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas."
John Michael Shanley: wrote the play, wrote the screenplay and directed the film, and used this control of quality to insure that he would produce an outstanding film that is tight at just 104 minutes, with no waste in time or the talent hired to produce it.
Families can be Difficult ... They also can be one's strength to weather the certain difficulties in life that test any resolve for happiness.
Even though this film has its comedic moments, Cancer is a serious subject, so you best bring your "big boy pants" to watch this one.
Those were different times in a desperate South, and consequently, this is a story that aches to be told.
Mary Surratt may have been a loving mother, but it would eventually kill her. Regardless, President Lincoln was murdered and retribution must be exacted, irrespective of the accused's culpability.
This remake of the 1939 film by Director / Actor Gary Sinise, of John Steinbeck's classic novel, communicates well lengths men will go to survive, and yet retain some semblance of dignity.
For some mysterious purpose, some broken men may only find themselves when hanging on by a thread.
Depressive tragedy plays out to its conclusion, and finds an entire community in a quandary of rotten choices.
A few minutes into the movie and I got a little worried. The dialogue, especially during the first few scenes really made me want to cringe.
Filmmaker Woody Allen has often dealt with different historical periods, with ancillary interlopers, with varying degrees of success.
Director / Screenwriter J. J. Abrams's film, "Super 8," reminded me of "Close Encounters" meets "E.T." meets "Goonies," and even though this chemistry in celluloid sounds like one giant cliché, the film worked, and it worked quite well.
This film, by Actress Jodie Foster who also directed, was produced during the time when Actor Gibson was having his last round of domestic skirmishes in his own home, and public opinion for the celebrated actor was at an all time low.
Remarkably, John Brennan is also a regular guy, with a regular life, with a regular job, but also he possessed an irregular sense of propriety towards those that he loved, governed by an impressive and overwhelming sense of honor.
I mostly love "Indie Films." As an film aficionado, I get to root for the underdog production and enjoy the tale told well in celluloid all at the same time.
Director Darren Aronofsky employs the tragedy of full blown schizophrenia to allegorically expose the duality of raw emotional conflict within the hyper-creative process that is the backstage confluence of ballerinas and their bosses.
Director Michel Gondry took a lame script by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg to build an unbelievable film, devoid of all emotion or the ability to elicit any palpable audience empathy.
Felix was a hermit, who stayed to himself, and kept himself locked up inside to the point that no one knew the truth, in the history, of who he was, and how he got that way.
This is a story that, at first, one may question whether it should even be told. At the end of the film, one realizes that it had to be told, if only to give hope that there can be an unlikely hero.
The film "Leaves of Grass" is less to do with Walt Whitman's opus, and more of a discussion of this aforementioned human condition, and yet still a comedy of sorts.
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