The Holocaust has been covered in film so often that it is difficult to touch upon the subject in an original way. Life is Beautiful gave us the inside of a concentration camp, as did the more recent Son of Saul, … Continue reading The Pianist (2002) Review
A film about the director of the worse movies of all time would be ripe for criticism. It would be easy to parody, mock or worse, play far too seriously but luckily Tim Burton knows exactly how he wants the movie … Continue reading Ed Wood (1994) Review
It would have been very easy to make Sully a straight “true events” movie. A disaster movie without the disaster. A collection of very specific, real-life events, going through what happened blow-by-blow. There is an aspect of this in Sully, and … Continue reading Sully (2016) Review
The hook for True Story is exactly that… that this is a true story. It begins in a very intriguing way as well, with James Franco’s suspected murderer using Jonah Hill’s shamed journalist’s name when he is arrested. It brings the … Continue reading True Story (2015) Review
In my “real life” I am a History teacher. Although this hasn’t got anything directly related with movies and TV, it does offer me the chance to use movies as teaching devices sometimes. History has been such a ripe source material for movies that … Continue reading Using films to teach… Life is Beautiful
The Wolfpack is an intriguing movie for any film fan. The opening sequences sees the titular brothers recreating key scenes from Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and while it is bizarre witnessing these recreations, you can’t help but be compelled by the scene for … Continue reading Documentary Week: The Wolfpack (2015) Review
When it was announced that Sofia Coppola was directing a movie about the teenagers who “broke-in” and robbed Hollywood and Los Angeles star’s homes, the real-life “Nicki,” a girl called Alexis Neiers was quoted as saying “I hope that this … Continue reading The Bling Ring (2013) Review
If the words “A True Story” were not so blatantly featured on this movie, you would dismiss the story as absurd. The initial idea that a boy would go missing and then the police would present the missing child’s Mother with another boy and … Continue reading The Changeling (2008) Review
It is Hollywood gold and at awards season it becomes the fashion to make true stories into movies. A movie not part of awards season but based on elements that are true made me question the suitability of some film’s source … Continue reading When is it inappropriate to make a “true story” movie?
It is ironic that a movie about becoming lost in a forest lacks so much depth. If you can look past the questionable taste of setting a horror movie in a forest in which over one hundred people commit suicide every … Continue reading The Forest (2016) Review
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