Survivors of most ordeals usually point to a common thread that gets them out of the darkness and back to the light of day; staying connected to something outside the situation and with yourself. Rosewater, the debut effort of Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) as a Screenwriter and Director for feature film is a Read More…
Movies
Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); Includes Everything – Especially The Kitchen Sink
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is thoroughly engaging and highly entertaining for all its 119 minutes in length. Is it a film? Yes, I guess so – technically. But film would be too narrow a categorization for the creative work that is Birdman. There is so much in and to Birdman I Read More…
John Wick: The Red Shoes II ?
John Wick, the action thriller starring Keanu Reeves is all about choreography. And the choreography of the action scenes is so outstanding that John Wick could challenge Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes as the finest film ever made about ballet. The back-story, I would use plot-line – however that would be generous Read More…