Brothers, directed by Jim Sheridan, is a remake from Susanne Bier’s 2004 Danish film. I haven’t seen the original and I will never understand why Hollywood always want to remake perfectly good movies but I was positively surprised by this modest war drama thanks to some truly terrific performance from the cast.
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Movie Review: Empire of the Sun (1987)
Directed by Steven Spielberg, Empire of the Sun is a coming-of-age movie based on J. G. Ballard’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. The movie stars Christian Bale as Jamie “Jim” Graham, a bratty young British boy living in Shanghai, China, who has a fascination with flying and airplanes.
Movie Review: Taking Chance (2009)
Taking Chance, directed by Ross Katz and adapted from the book by Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, is a 78-minute film made for HBO. The movie is based on the real-life experience of Lt. Col Strobl (Kevin Bacon) escorting the body of fallen Marine PFC Phelps Chance (LCpl posthumously) back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.
The Hurt Locker (2009)
The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, is a movie that has received considerable acclaim and is widely seen as the leading contender for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The reason I haven’t reviewed this movie earlier is that I wanted to watch the movie a second time and reflect on how much the completely unrealistic premises and behaviors take away from this otherwise very highly entertaining movie.
Movie Review: The Counterfeiters (2007)
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) is an Austrian-German war drama based on the true story of Operation Bernhard, the Nazi’s’ plan to counterfeit the English Pound and US Dollar to flood the market with fake notes and cause a monetary collapse. The movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008.
Movie Review: Mongol (2007)
“Do not scorn a weak cub. He may become the brutal tiger.” Mongolian proverb
So begins Mongol, a Russian movie directed by Sergei Bodrov which was nominated by the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. This historical epic was based on the 13th century book The Secret History of the Mongols and was made on the relatively small budget (for an epic) of $20 million and tells about the early life of Mongol warrior Genghis Khan.
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a graphic and thrilling World War II period fantasia set in occupied France. Clocking in at 152 minutes, the film is lengthy yet never dull and features several parallel stories and characters that end up converging toward a climatic ending.
Movie Review: The Lucky Ones (2008)
The Lucky Ones, directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist), is the latest from a long line of movie “about” the Iraq war. As witnessed the last few years, those movies haven’t done so well at the box office and this small independent production certainly did not break the mold. Given the fact that it is an independent production, and it got the luminous Rachel McAdams and good old Shawshank State Prison escapee Tim Robbins, I took a chance and rented the DVD.
