Proving that truth can be greater than fiction, the handsome production of Seabiscuit offers a healthy alternative to Hollywood’s staple diet of mayhem. With superior production values at his disposal, writer-director Gary Ross is reverent toward Laura Hillenbrand’s captivating bestseller, using archival material and David McCullough’s familiar PBS-styled narration to pay Ken Burns-like tribute to […]
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by Chris Hedges, a New York Times war correspondent and journalist: “The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner), a […]
The Untouchables
During Prohibition, Al Capone (Robert De Niro) has nearly the whole city of Chicago under his control and supplies liquor at high prices. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner), summoned to stop Capone, conducts raids using a large squad of officers. After his efforts fail due to corrupt policemen tipping off Capone, he […]
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
In 1462, Vlad Dracula (Gary Oldman) returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife, Elisabeta (Winona Ryder), has committed suicide after receiving a false report of his death. Enraged that his wife is now damned for committing suicide, Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the […]
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