Oscar nominated documentarian Werner Herzog returns to his first feature film after nearly six years. Queen of the Desert was actually shot back in 2015, just now being released and distributed. There isn’t much of an explanation as to why, the epic historical drama is a stunning accomplishment, a reminder of the type of sweeping […]
The Forgotten (bad 2004 thriller starring Julianne Moore) director Joseph Ruben’s latest film follows the fictional, historical romance archetype genre too closely. The Ottoman Lieutenant works like a cinema launching vehicle for new stars Hera Hilmar (Anna Karenina) and Game of Thrones star Michiel Huisman. Throw in respected Oscar winner Kingsley (Gandhi) in one of
Another film with good intentions; dark history that deserves to be on the big screen, weakened by a terrible script and amateur direction. C-rate television director George Mendeluk and screenwriter Richard Bachynsky Hoover use the “Titanic Movie” model to convey a love story set inside the horrific events of Ukraine’s man-made famine that killed around
The South American perspective of Jackie Kennedy is apparently similar to a horror movie seen through the eyes of director Pablo Larraín. In his first English language film, the 40-year-old surprisingly molds Jackie in the same structure of fellow Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others (2001). The vicious editing choices paired with the savage musical
The comparisons with “12 Years A Slave” will be impossible to avoid. Both true stories focus on slaves during the early 1800’s, both films distributed by Fox Searchlight, but the similarities really end there. “12 Years a Slave” which won the Oscar for best picture, was a polished film from British filmmaker Steve McQueen, who
They don’t make them like this anymore. Terrence Davis like Anthony Minghella, Terrence Malik or Martin Scorsese, has a flare for the epic, the bold, the understanding of time and space. Davis’ adaptations are typically period and explore the hardships of a particular era as much as the characters within. This time he sets his
I remember first seeing actor Diego Luna in the astonishing Y tu Mama Tambien. His career and interest in film has developed over the years and he is now presenting his sophomore directorial feature and his biggest film yet. He worked for years to get this film made; having to seek funding in Mexico, Luna
This has been an incredible year for black history in film, and another beautiful film joins that welcome cluster. Director Just Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) is no stranger to historical pictures, and while his Mandela picture isn’t the sleekest and well rounded piece of cinema, it’s still a beautiful telling of an amazing story