An unsentimental tale of the seas
At 47, Director Kevin McDonald’s track record is pretty impressive: One Day in September kicked off the millennium for McDonald with an Academy Award in 2000, followed by the documentary re-enactment ...
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Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy star in St Vincent
The story of a cantankerous, chain smoking, hard drinking 60-something who becomes a mentor to a lonely, bullied young boy is a familiar premise that remains precisely that in Writer/Director Ted Melf ...
An identity crisis in The Grandmaster
When a new Wong Kar-wai film comes out, the art house crowd takes notice. Kar-Wai is the auteur of the stylishly shot, beautifully made, internationally-accessible Chungking Express, Happy Together an ...
Two famous battles, one in 1832, the other in 1984
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs LES MISERABLES (Eureka). There have been many film adaptations of Victor Hugo’s immensely popular novel, which is so critical of injustices by society and deeply ...