Thursday, February 21, 2008
Sunshine
Sleeper from last year, now on DVD. One of the best sc-fi flicks to come down the pike in a long time. Plot: space crew in near future travels to sun, which is slowly dying and whose diminution produces “solar winter” on Earth. Crew’s mission: unload a maga-bomb into the sun to “re-start” it.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Ratatouille
Delightful animation whose story line and effects are dazzling. Culinary mouse curious about humans learns to cook and assists young, lowly dishwasher in elite Parisian restaurant. Fine moral lessons. Grade: B+.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
There Will be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis plays early 20th century “oil man” who cares for nothing — nothing! — but success. Possibly the most powerful single acting performance since Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs or Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Outstanding plot and gorgeous
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Journey from the Fall
Powerfully acted and sumptuously photographed original language narrative of one family’s agony in the fall of Saigon to the Communists in April 1975 and its aftermath. Spares nothing in depicting the physical, psychological and spiritual horrors of Vietnamese Communism. Testimony to triumph in
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Charlie Wilson’s War
Delightful, real-life account of the carnal, mischievous Democratic congressman who almost single-handedly launched the U. S. political contribution to the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Tom Hanks is in top form as Wilson, Julia Roberts shines as wealthy Texan who takes up the Afghan
