Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Winter’s Bone, adapted by writer-director Debra Granik and screenwriter Anne Rosellini from the novel by Daniel Woodrell, is the engrossing story of a 17-yr old teenage girl’s plight to save her family by locating her missing father…
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Movie Review: Mother (2009)
From South Korea, gifted director Bong Joon-ho (The Host) helms this unnerving murder mystery with a striking clarity and delves into the concept that there is no greater love that the one between a mother and her child. The story toys with viewers’ own expectations from beginning to end.
Movie Review: Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
One of the biggest success in South Korean cinema so far, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War is an action-packed war epic that tells the story of two brothers fighting during the Korean war. Clearly inspired from Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, [...]
Movie Review: Great Expectations (1998)
An Americanized adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved dark novel, Great Expectations is a romantic drama directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. Greatly simplified by focusing only on the essential characters and events, this film is a stylish contemporary version [...]
Movie Review: Sin Nombre (2009)
A vivid and stunning feature from first-timer Cary Fukunaga, Sin Nombre is a beautifully told drama that puts faces and motivations on the struggle of thousands of Central Americans immigrants trying to make their way to America. Despite the obvious ground for potential controversy [...]
Movie Review: The Good Guy (2009)
Mix some romantic drama into Wall Street (1987) and you may end up with a movie like The Good Guy. Julio DiPietro, a former investment banker turned writer-director, is obviously quite familiar with the territory as he lingers into the apparent dynamics of Wall Street trading just as much as he does into in the romantic aspects of the love triangle at the center of this movie.
Movie Review: Days of Heaven (1978)
A Terrence Malick romantic drama, Days of Heaven is a film so visually lush that it has become legendary mainly for Nestor Almendros’s and Haskell Wesler’s Oscar-winning cinematography. It is so strikingly beautiful that nearly every single frame is a piece of art that could be displayed in a museum exhibit.
Guest Review: A Single Man (2009)
There have been a few films in my life that have struck a chord in my heart. It’s as if the film is a secret that I hold close and dear, and I only want to share it with a select few. All That Jazz and American Beauty have been films that I have felt this for, and then I saw Tom Ford’s A Single Man starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode.
