This of course is a recent movie, but I wanted to write a review of it. Being a musician myself, and an actor in my point of origin, and a professional extra in this life, I felt very close to the characters, having my best friend die of alcoholism, in a way committing suicide, but not hanging himself literally. I feel a kindred spirit to Lady Gaga because she is from an Italian family in real life and her character was from an Italian family, so I identified very much with the character and ...
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Writer, director, and producer, Paul Davids, has done a wonderful job in bringing to the public the independent and modestly-budgeted film, Starry Night, and with Paul's talent, too bad he didn't have more production money.  Starry Night is a beautiful and unique story of Vincent van Gogh who comes back to contemporary times in Los Angeles and finds that his paintings are now worth millions.  Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime and ...
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Sunshine could very well be an academy award winner–best picture, best actor, best supporting actor/actress, you name it.  The film was a very well-done epic covering more than three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family.  The family story within the film is beautifully critiqued at the end of the movie in a letter written by the patriarch of the family, Emmanuelle Sonnenschein (David De Keyser), and read by his great-grandson, Ivan, played by Ralph ...
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Sci-Fi

This movie has a powerful message and commentary on the state of the modern world and people's thirst for pleasure, sex, greed, and power. Using clones to replace one's self, the operator discovers that the phoney life is better than the real one, or at least it seems that way. To me the author is writing about the lower self taking over the higher self, and that most people like to stay in the lower self because the higher self has challenges, commitments, and obligations, and...
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I just love the authenticity about Australian films and the fact that they don't always use Hollywood starlets for those leading roles. In this film they use indigenous people playing indigenous people—a very interesting people who captivate the screen. It has a scene of a court hearing outside in a small desert town that would not be able to be duplicated by Hollywood. As always, the indigenous people get the short end of the stick, one way or another. It doesn't have the bells and ...
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In this review of The Tailor of Panama, I could probably just say, "Save your money."  However, there are lessons to be learned.First, don't go to see a movie just because a great actor, in this case Geoffrey Rush, is in it, because you can't judge a movie from the past ones that the actor played in.  

  Even Geoffrey Rush could not make this movie digestible.  The movie started out hopeful with Geoffrey Rush doing ...
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Drama, with adult themes

The true story of Temple Grandin, an autistic child who grows up, goes to college to becomes a doctor of animal husbandry, and invents many designs for livestock, particularly cows who are slaughtered for human consumption. This movie shows that the faith that a mother or father may have in a child and the faith of a sick child to become more than what society says they can is triumphant with the help of God. Temple overcomes many obstacles because of her ...
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