Wow! Great acting, great history, cinematography, casting. About the tribes of ancient England at war with each other and the invading Danes. King Alfred is a king of faith, which gives him his Deo power, but the film itself is really about a young warrior by the name of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (played by Alexander Dreymon) who is every woman's heartthrob. He manages to stay alive through many battles. All of it looks real enough and believable. BBC film.

Made in the Czech Republic and Seoul, Korea by Japanese Director/Producer Kaz Kiriya, the movie has all of the great Samurai traits with both Asian and English actors, also Iranian and other European actors. The mix works because everyone casted is a real man, which helps to make it much more believable. No Hollywood "warrior" types in this movie. I am always excited to see a film about loyalty and honor, strength and courage in the midst of tremendous evil opposition. In the film the great ...
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The film is a portrayal of the later life of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina in his early life and was considered one of the greatest writers in the world as well as a living saint. It seems as though his writings were the beginning of true communalism, as he did not believe in private property and although he was born an aristocrat his thinking was more socialistic and for the people. He was willing to sign over his copyrights to the people of...
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A documentary by Martin Scorsese about the last concert of The Band, with Robbie Robertson (of The Band), who wrote "Take A Load Off Annie" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and many others. He is a great lead guitar player. All of The Band are accomplished. They were on the road for 16 years, and for 8 of those years they worked in dives and bars and sometimes ate from dumpsters, which they reveal in this documentary. So success, even for great musicians, doesn't happen quick, and ...
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The filmmaker Carmine Famiglietti tells his story of his own eating disorder over a period of 10 years, from being 300+ lbs. and going on a crash vegetable diet and getting to his normal weight for his height and then gaining most of it all back. The film has interesting characters, mostly all Italian, who are professional actors and the filmmaker himself is a good actor. He shows the difficulty of trying to overcome emotional overeating, which he discovers 10 years later is a problem that he...
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The Legend of 1900, written by Allessandro Barrico and Giuseppe Tornatore (who also directed the film) and starring Tim Roth and Pruit Taylor Vince, was a most magnificent film–a sleeper which should have gotten the Academy Award the year it was made.  I'll try not to give too much of the plot away, just enough to get the idea of the film–then you can run down to store and get it.  It was about a boy born on a steamer who grows up on the boat ...
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Based on the true story of Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi, who was born in America of a Japanese father and American mother who bring him to Japan and raise him and their struggles of survival in early twentieth-century Japan. He later returns to America and becomes well-known. This is an excellent film in every way, except for the casting at the end of the too-American-looking older Isamu, who looks more like Ricky Nelson. Boy, they blew it on this one! But the rest of the movie was ...
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