Fourteen-year-old rape and murder victim, marooned in “the in-between," a/k/a "the blue horizon" dividing life and afterlife, continues to watch over her family, friends, and unapprehended killer, a quintessential creep who looks to be guiltily, self-incriminatingly, in disguise: Stanley Tucci with a blond comb-over hairpiece, paste-on matching mustache, aviator glasses, …
Two factors influenced the seafaring and soon-to-be self-educated Martin Eden’s (Luca Marinelli) decision to make the written word his stock in trade: the escape from his proletarian surroundings that it offered, and a shot at impressing Elena (Jessica Cressy), the learned but terminally-dullish sister of a boy he happened to …
Is it ironic or fitting that director Peter Jackson’s brilliant use of technology should help make such an arresting treatment of a war in which technology — tanks, machine guns, mustard gas, etc. — wrought heretofore undreamt-of horror upon humanity? Either way, it’s astonishing that a film which must resort …
Is it ironic or fitting that director Peter Jackson’s brilliant use of technology should help make such an arresting treatment of a war in which technology — tanks, machine guns, mustard gas, etc. — wrought heretofore undreamt-of horror upon humanity? Either way, it’s astonishing that a film which must resort …
The “West Memphis Three” -- Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin -- were teenagers in 1993 when they were wrongfully convicted of the murders of three 8-year old boys. Directed by investigative journalist Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), West of Memphis picks up where Joe Berlinger and Bruce …