The Railway Man – heroism, tension, war, peace and a powerful love story
After the fall of Singapore in 1942, some 200,000 allied troops, including 25,000 UK soldiers, were forced into slavery by the Japanese. ...
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Inside Llewyn Davis is a masterpiece by the Coen Brothers
Joyce Glasser reviews Inside Llewyn Davis (January 24, 2014) The Coen Brothers’ new film, Inside Llewyn Davis is to the New York City folk music scene of 1961 what their film Barton Fink was to the Ca ...
Teenage – documenting of the evolution of the teenager
Based on a book by the punk author Jon Savage, Teenage is an often fascinating but equally frustrating historic collage showing the evolution of the teenager as a movement and period in one’s life. Fi ...
August: Osage County starring Meryl Streep – film review by Joyce Glasser
August: Osage County begins with the short-lived narrator (actor and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepherd) meditating on T.S. Eliot’s line, ‘Life is long.’ But for the audience, it’s about ...