Tags: drama

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 …]

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 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 …]

The Lion in Winter is an amazing movie full of sharp wicked performances and even sharper dialogue. Where else would a queen rail at her sons ‘Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife. We all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re all barbarians.’ This gem of a film stars Peter O’Toole [Read More …]