Snow Falling on Cedars – Review
In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a man, Tom Robinson, is accused of rape, largely because he is African-American, and because he was kissed by a white woman in the rural 1930’s South. In “Snow Falling on...
View Article47 Ronin – Review
47 Ronin is a highly fictionalized take on the story of the 47 ronin who took revenge on a court official who had the 47’s leader commit seppuku. In the film, Keanu Reeves portrays Kai, a half-British...
View ArticleCoffee in Winter – Review
Manjeet S. Gill called his film openly as a film “inspired by the films by Hou Hsiao Hsien”. Next came the email to review the film. Thirdly, came excitement. The story follows Rod, played by Roderick...
View ArticleOpen Grave – Review
I’m going to try and say as little as possible about the plot. Actually, nothing about the plot would be best. Some people spend the entire time watching a movie like this trying to “figure it out” or...
View ArticleLegendary: Tomb of the Dragon – Review
Scott Adkins leaps about in this really iffy low budget creature feature which doesn’t really scare or thrill. Nothing much happens at all accept for the odd obligatory water sequence where faceless...
View ArticleFinishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee – Review
Done in the style of a 1970s mockumentary, “Finishing the Game” is based on the premise that, when Bruce Lee died in 1973 at the age of 32, he left behind twelve minutes of footage for a movie...
View ArticleThe Girl from Nagasaki – Review
By a subtle meshing of reality and fantasy, Michel Comte and his team bring to the screen a visual orgy of modern ballet, opera and narrative film-making. Filming took place in various locations...
View ArticleThe Killing Fields – Review
Sam Waterston is Sidney Schanberg, a reporter working for the New York Times in the midst of a civil war in Cambodia in the early 70s. His dedicated interpreter is Dith Pran. In and around the capital...
View ArticleRise: Blood Hunter – Review
The snoopy reporter Sadie Blake is called by her nerd colleague Ethan Mills that has deciphered a code and found an address in Koreatown from information of the Goth Tricia Rawlins about a bloody cult....
View ArticleDivergent – Review
Divergent is a film adaptation of the novel, written by Veronica Roth, that takes place in dystopian Chicago. The society that resides there is split into five groups or “factions”, each representing...
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