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Uncovering Curiosities: Yaron Zilberman’s A LATE QUARTET

Yaron Zilberman’s 2012 film, A Late Quartet is classy. That’s pretty much all you need to know. It’s a well constructed film, with great acting, dealing with grown-up themes in a grown-up way. It’s the type of film that’s rarely seen [...]

September 10, 2021

Notebook Reviews: AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS

Joe Roth – 2001 A first-rate cast (Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Seth Green, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken!) head-up this enjoyable, if uninspired romantic comedy. Cusack is [...]

March 5, 2021

Remembering Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS

After the success of Batman in 1989, Tim Burton was given carte blanche for this sequel, and he delivered the most bizarre Hollywood blockbuster ever made– an $80 million German Expressionist summer action movie. Michael Keaton once again returned [...]

June 21, 2020

40 Years On: New Trailer And Poster For THE DEER HUNTER

It’s been 40 years since Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter hit screens. The success of the film led to Cimino being given carte blanche for Heaven’s Gate, a film which would almost destroy a studio (United Artists) and bury the era [...]

June 20, 2018

Blu-ray Review: A LATE QUARTET Hits The Right Notes

A Late Quartet is classy. That’s pretty much all you need to know. It’s a well constructed film, with great acting, dealing with grown-up themes in a grown-up way. It’s the type of film that’s rarely seen these days, due to the way that [...]

July 20, 2013

Review: Daniel Craig Is James Bond In SKYFALL

Skyfall is a great movie, not just a great James Bond movie, but a film which stands on its own outside of the long running film series. Daniel Craig’s third outing as James Bond is his best yet (even though I was a big fan of the unfairly [...]

October 28, 2012

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