Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln focuses on the final four months of Lincoln’s presidency and the fight to pass the 13th Amendment while trying to negotiate peace for his divided Nation.
AFI FEST 2012 Film Review: The Impossible (Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona USA/Spain 2012)
Natural disasters are easy prey for filmmakers wherein the melodrama is grown organically out of the true story the film portrays. This is usually their downfall, as the events and performances are so over-the-top and seeping with mushiness that they get thrown onto a Cable Network and forgotten–all for the best. Then there is one […]
Finally, Brad Pitt vs. Zombies in World War Z Trailer
Once upon a time there was a movie named World War Z, scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2012, starring Brad Pitt. That didn’t happen. In June of 2012 the release of World War Z was pushed by Paramount Studios to June of 2013, and six weeks of re-shoots were scheduled; plus a […]
AFI FEST 2012 Film Review: ‘Rise Of The Guardians’
Rise of the Guardians feels so familiar, like a piece of childhood come back to life on screen, that you cannot help but fall in love with the characters, fantastical or real in the form of children.
AFI FEST 2012 Film Review: A Highjacking (Kapringen) (Dir. Tobias Lindholm Denmark 2012 )
Director Tobias Lindholm’s first feature film R was a gritty prison drama that upheaved the generic genre conventions that came before. His second feature takes a drastic look at a very topical subject, and one very much ignored in detail in the media–except for the sensationalizing of pirates sailing the open sea. A Highjacking is […]