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Youth in Revolt
Youth Revolution puts up good fight, but doesn’t ultimately prevail.
Category: Independent Films
Caught up in Crazy Heart
There’s something about the twang and sorrow of country music that makes me feel like I’m back home in Ohio, or I’m depressed…or I’m just depressed in Ohio. Crazy Heart tells the story of the country singer, Bad Blake, as he struggles to get back the success he once had. But Crazy Heart is more [...]
“Uncertainty” reluctant to find the right course
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins deliver great performances, but the film can’t quite figure out what it wants to do with itself.
Paranormal’s Lack of Activity
Think scary movie today and what do you imagine? Blood? Gore? Half-naked girls? Old school filmmakers went by the theory of less is more. They put us into the world of the poor, defenseless characters, pulling out our most vulnerable emotions.
Paranormal Activity seems to abide by the less is more practice, but it still falls [...]
Into the Loop
In a world ripe with everyday reminders of falling stocks, rising unemployment, and world ……
The Mayor of Castro Street
Transcending merely the gay rights movement, San Francisco City Councilman Harvey Milk ……
The Wrestler
By Angela West on Aug 24, 2009 in Independent Films
With all the turmoil going on in the stock market recently, perhaps Darren Aronofsky’s latest ……
Richard Nixon, Pound-for-Pound
By Scott Essman on Aug 21, 2009 in Independent Films
“No holds barred” is how ex-President Richard M. Nixon approached his interviews with David Frost, that is, according to FROST/NIXON, Ron Howard’s new film about the 1977 landmark TV events. And we do get a series of unbridled interview sessions between young TV host and grizzled embittered ex-world leader, going toe-to-toe in increasingly tense [...]
Holocaust On Film: Boy in the Striped Pajamas
By Scott Essman on Aug 21, 2009 in Independent Films
Creating a piece of entertainment about a subject as unseemly as the Holocaust is tricky business. With all apologies to SCHINDLER’S LIST, the topic was probably most effectively disseminated in the 1978 TV miniseries HOLOCAUST, starring Joseph Bottoms, Meryl Streep, and James Woods. That project, created by longtime TV director Marvin Chomsky, whose credits [...]
