Posted: July 30, 2017 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie, Detroit, John Boyega, John Krakowski, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Will Poulter | 1,729 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Two movies have opened within two weeks of each other, both by recognized filmmakers and both based on actual events.
However, apart from the fact that their titles are single words of two syllables each beginning with the letter “D”, the two couldn’t be more different in approach, tone and style.
One is writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and the second, more recently, is writer Mark Boal’s and director Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit.
And though Nolan’s movie is a masterful piece of filmmaking, impressive and even ultimately quite moving, it is ferociously put to shame by Boal and Bigelow’s Detroit. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: December 13, 2015 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Anthony Mackie, Bassel Ghandour, Bill Melendez, Bryan Schultz, Cornelius Uliano, Craig Schultz, Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Jonathan Levine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kristen Chenoweth, Michael Shannon, Naji Abu Nowar, Noah Schnapp, Seth Rogan, Steve Martino, The Night Before, The Peanuts Movie, Theeb | 1,434 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Theeb is Jordan’s entry in the Foreign Language Film category at this year’s Academy Awards.
I think that it was stated best by one movie critic I heard on NPR: If you only see one Jordanian film this year, this is definitely the one to see.
Theeb is a first rate coming of age story. It’s what one might term a big little film. The plot in many ways is simple, but the background at times, the vast deserts, the wide vistas, the looming mountains, the huge backdrop of nothingness seen against an endless sky, gives it the feeling of a Lawrence of Arabia, Jr. (and parts of that movie were filmed on location there). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 9, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Anthony Mackie, Anthony Russo, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cheap Thrills, Chris Evans, Christopher Markus, Cobie Smulders, David Chirchirillo, David Koechner, E.L. Katz, Ed Brubaker, Emily Van Kamp, Ethan Embry, Joe Russo, Pat Healy, Robert Redford, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paxton, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Stephen McFeely, Trent Haaga | 1,682 Comments »
In the 2012 drama, Compliance, Pat Healy played a sociopath pretending to be a police officer who manipulates the workers at a fast food restaurant into do some pretty disgusting things (and I don’t mean to the food, though from what I understand, fast food workers wouldn’t need much manipulation for that in the first place).
In his newest movie, Cheap Thrills, he’s on the opposite side of the fence, playing a poor schnook being manipulated into doing disgusting things by a pair of sociopaths. Read the rest of this entry »
