Armenian epic and Manx trivia
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The Promise (Entertainment One). In 1914 there was systematic extermination of the Armenians by Ottoman Turkey. Modern Turkey to this day denies that the Holocau ...
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A didactic historical epic is eclipsed by a tacky love triangle
Joyce Glasser reviews The Promise (April 28, 2017) Beginning in 1915 in Constantinople, the Armenian Genocide was the beleaguered Ottoman Empire’s systematic extermination of an estimated 1.5 million ...
Terrence Malick’s borderline pretentious critique of neon cities is saved by its breathtaking images
Joyce Glasser reviews Knight of Cups (May 6, 2016) Knight of Cups is Terrence Malick’s first film set in the freeway city of Los Angeles and he makes the most of it. Captured on film by Malick’s regu ...
Less sizzle and more fizzled out in Out of the Furnace
The distinguishing feature of Scott Cooper’s Appalachian Gothic thriller, Out of the Furnace, is its cast: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Willem Defoe, Sam Shepard an ...