Archive for the Tag 'History'

KATYN – Reviewed by Jeremy

The latest film from Polish director Andrzej Wajda, Katyn, recalls the horrific event of the Soviet-led massacre in the Katyn forest (Circa 1940). This is a dark movie and justifiably so, for in my opinion, there is no other place in this world with a history as violent and gritty as Eastern Europe’s. Katyn is [...]

VALKYRIE – Reviewed by J.D.

When one stops to think of exactly how many films in the last sixty-odd years have been made about World War II, it boggles the mind. An encyclopedia that listed each of them, alphabetically, would run thousands of pages, and would still need to be updated every month. Today, we will open that book and [...]

FROST/NIXON – Reviewed by Casey

During the recent Academy Awards, Frank Langella was revered by Best Actor presenter Michael Douglas: “The pitfalls of playing a historical figure so familiar and so widely interpreted are too numerous to mention -  which is why when I viewed in amazement the new life brought to Richard Nixon by Frank Langella … the comparisons [...]

CHANGELING – Reviewed by Jeremy

The way I saw it, Changeling felt like a strange love child born out of both the acting style of Angelina Jolie’s earlier works, i.e., Girl, Interrupted and a visual tale of desperate humanization that Clint Eastwood has begun to constantly barrage our theaters with. Changeling is the story of a mother whose child is [...]