THE SON OF NO ONE (2011) Starring Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan, Jake Cherry, Brian Gilbert, John Ransone, Roger Guenveur Smith, Ursula Parker, Simone Jones, Lemon Anderson, Michael Rivera and Sean Cregan. Screenplay by Dito Montiel. Directed by Dito Montiel. Distributed by Millennium Films. 95 minutes. Rated R. … Continue reading
TALKING HEADS CHRONOLOGY (2011) Featuring David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. Directed by Talking Heads. Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. 109 minutes. Not Rated. In the Seventies and Eighties, there was no other group like Talking Heads. A group of art-school funk-punksters that set CBGBs and eventually the world on fire with … Continue reading
Adepero Oduye Finds Acceptance as a Pariah by Brad Balfour Though Pariah is this little film telling a simple, classic tale seen and heard before, the charm of its actors and the need to have this coming-of-age story told again and again until it no longer needs to resonate makes the film a powerful and award-worthy statement. … Continue reading
EXIT STRATEGY (2012) Starring Jameel Saleem, Kimelia Weathers, Quincy “QDeezy” Harris, Noelle Balfour, Big Boy, Kevin Hart, Liz Hernandez, William “Fuzzy” West, Matt Kawczynski, Sid Burston, Juhahn Jones and Nick Sinise. Screenplay by Jameel Saleem. Directed by Michael Whitton. Distributed by The Film Group. 76 minutes. Not Rated. The world is full of low-budget comedies … Continue reading
Michel Hazanavicius Silences the Skeptics with the Oscar Favorite The Artist by Brad Balfour Wily provocateur and indie screen mogul Harvey Weinstein sees beyond the obvious and recognizes value in some rather offbeat films. Thankfully, that support has so far paid off. Four of Weinstein’s pictures won awards at this year’s Golden Globes, with a … Continue reading
Michelle Williams Her Uncanny Performance in My Week With Marilyn Turns Heads and Wins Award Noms by Brad Balfour Who knew that when actress Michelle Williams first appeared as the bad girl in Dawson’s Creek, she would have the uncanny good sense to take on roles which offered her real challenges? From a supporting part in Brokeback Mountain to the lead in Wendy and … Continue reading
Chris Weitz Helping Others to Find A Better Life by Jay S. Jacobs It is not often that people almost completely change course in Hollywood. However, after making two straight huge blockbuster films, Chris Weitz has downshifted into the tiny independent drama A Better Life. However, smaller is not necessarily a bad thing. Weitz started small … Continue reading
PERFECT SENSE (2011) Starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Connie Nielsen, Denis Lawson, Alastair Mackenzie, Liz Strange, Richard Mack, James Watson, Caroline Paterson, Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh, Malcolm Shields, Adam Smith and Duncan Airlie James. Screenplay by Kim Fupz Aaekson. Directed by David Mackenzie. Distributed by IFC Films. 92 minutes. Not Rated. Virulent … Continue reading
ANNIE HALL (1977) Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken, Donald Symington, Helen Ludlam, Mordecai Lawner, Joan Newman, Jonathan Munk, Ruth Volner, Martin Rosenblatt, Beverly D’Angelo, Shelley Hack, Jeff Goldblum, Lucy Lee Flippen, Gary Muledeer, Marshall McLuhan, Dick Cavett and Sigourney Weaver. Screenplay … Continue reading
Laurence Leboeuf On the Road to Foreverland by Jay S. Jacobs Foreverland was a film that was literally life and death to its young writer/director Max McGuire. The film was about a twenty-something man who was stricken with the disease cystic fibrosis, who has to travel the length of the west coast of the US to scatter … Continue reading
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