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Miracle

I absolutely loved this movie. Granted I am a hockey fanatic, but this is just a fantastic sports film. Miracle tells the story of Herb Brooks the coach of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team. Historically this was a team of college and minor league players who were trained in 6 months to play a [Read More …]

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

With The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Peter Jackson has created a cinematic masterpiece. Because all three films were shot simultaneously there is a continuity and a flow to the films not generally seen in film series. The undertaking of directing three massive movies at once must have been taxing, but it has culminated in [Read More …]

Mystic River

Mystic River opens with the defining moment in the lives of all of its characters, three boys are playing street hockey when on of them is abducted and taken away. This one even shaped who these people became, from crooks to cops to basket cases as they are dealt the consequences of not only the [Read More …]

Big Fish

The movie Big Fish was like a well told joke whose punch line I just didn’t get. Though I was mildly entertained and knew that there was some real interest there, I just couldn’t get into the movie and I came out with the sense of being left out of the fun. This is not [Read More …]

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai is a sweeping epic in every sense of the film. It has beautiful, carefully filmed exotic locales, a tragic hero, ornate costumes, long battle scenes, and even long contemplative pauses between battles. Like most Oscar hopefuls released late in the year it is more serious about its characters and its actions and [Read More …]

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