Tag: Movie Review

HIGHLIGHTS: June 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Horror Feature: SOLITUDEBest Thriller Feature: MERCY OF OTHERSBest Story: THIEFBest Performances: PROJECT 405: LOST AT SEABest Crime Film: DESIREBest Mystery Film: THE WRITER’S EXTRAORDINARY ACTIONBest Thriller Short: HIGH-STANDBest Horror Short: SHIVABest Mini-Short: A DUTIFUL SPOUSE See info for each film: DESIRE, 7min., USADirected… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: June 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival

HIGHLIGHTS: May 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Short Film: THE OLD LADYBest Story: REWRITTENBest Direction: AKABEIBest Micro-Short: YARDWORK See info for each film: AKABEI, 12min., PolandDirected by Marcin Ko?odziejczakA young woman dreaming of a stable relationship discovers that her current partner is just wasting her time, so she plans swift… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: May 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival

HIGHLIGHTS: April 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Short Film: BEFORE DAWNBest Direction: LAMENTBest Mini-Short: YARDWORK See info for each film: YARDWORK, 3min,. FinlandDirected by Juha ToivalaYardwork can sometimes cause tension between husband and wife! Watch NOW – the audience feedback video. BEFORE DAWN, 15min., USADirected by Ruben Rodas“A top hit-man… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: April 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival

HIGHLIGHTS: March 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:Best Feature Film: CHABAK – THE NIGHT OF MURDER AND ROMANCEBest Performances: A BEAUTIFUL LIFEBest Direction: RENEGADE EPISODE 1: REDEMPTIONBest Short Film: THE GIFT OF MAGPIE See info for each film: A BEAUTIFUL LIFE, 15min,. USADirected by Zsolt KormendyTwo detectives investigate a mysterious kidnapping… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: March 2024 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival

High-Noon (1952). Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly

High Noon is classic good versus evil, a common theme in most western film; however it distinguishes itself by creating a character study rather than an action picture. High Noon is less about gun fights and more about a character study on a man facing a threat alone, no support from friends or allies. The western genre provides the background of the story, but Kane is the story and Cooper does an amazing job portraying a man who stands true to his character. One of the greatest western films in the history of cinema, High Noon is a must see for all those who have a passion for movies and compelling characters.

Movie Review: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, 2005

Never in the history of comic book films has a film adaptation been so wildly off base of the plot line of the original novel and been so accepted by fans…and critically successful. You have to give A History of Violence that. What really happens is, instead of following the comic book, which works backwards in telling a slightly…well, very different tale of Joey’s past, the film deals with the present and how he moves forward. The “hero” scene is the only loyal part of the movie and the rest goes off on it’s own. The overall factor that I think works for the film is the fact that it maintains the themes of the comic and then translates them into film and goes eh hem “violently” over the line. It never glorifies the violence – it’s almost so realistic you’d ask yourself “I think they really killed that guy…” and knowing Cronenburg, they just might have haha.

Movie Review: THE PERFECT HOST, 2011

Finally. America has been patient and now the weight has been lifted. We have dreamed of this day ever since the finale of “Frasier.” Not since John Travolta in Pulp Fiction has there been such an impressing reemergence into the lime light. David Hyde Pierce is back!

Movie Review: INCEPTION, 2010

A writing professor of mine once suggested that any serious writer should avoid dream sequences in their stories at all costs; that they are cheap gimmick to allow a writer to introduce meaning and information without the cumbersome trouble of attaching it to a character’s actions. It’s actually a good rule of thumb and a problem that’s been perpetrated in more than one hack’s hands. Of course, the other thing he said is that there are no rules in writing and anything is fair game as long as you know what you’re doing.