By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Searle, screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher and director Bill Condon craft a genuinely enthralling cinematic thriller which can boast superb performances by lead actors Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren. As the movie progresses, a certain amount of transparency… Continue reading Review: THE GOOD LIAR
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Review: THE REPORT
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Post-911, the C.I.A. with the permission of some key government leaders adopted an investigative strategy that involved the torture of potential witnesses and prisoners who may have had knowledge about the real villains behind the attacks. Though initially lauded for some progress, these methods became highly… Continue reading Review: THE REPORT
Review: CHARLIE’S ANGELS
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) In our modern age of entertainment where audiences demand more substance and less objectification of female characters, it might seem like a tricky feat to pull of leading women that are smart, badass and sexy. However, a female filmmaker can almost certainly know how to achieve… Continue reading Review: CHARLIE’S ANGELS
Review: FRANKIE
By Mark Saldana Rating: 2 (Out of 4 Stars) From French New Wave to “Mumblecore” there have been some great films that beautifully create and capture candid slice of life moments while seemingly effortlessly developing characters and putting forth some powerful narratives. Unfortunately, Frankie is not one of those movies. Writer/director Ira Sachs makes a… Continue reading Review: FRANKIE
Multiplatform Video Release: LILYANA
Source: ABRAMORAMA LIYANA is a genre-defying documentary that tells the story of five children in the Kingdom of Eswatini who turn past trauma into an original fable about a girl named Liyana who embarks on a perilous quest to save her young twin brothers. The film weaves her animated journey together with poetic documentary scenes to… Continue reading Multiplatform Video Release: LILYANA
Austin Film Festival 2019 Review/Interview: THE DEVIL’S SON
By Liz Lopez Rating: A This year, as in the past, the Austin Film Festival offered many feature films, some of which have already opened theatrically at a national level and others pending distribution, or other stages of the film festival circuit. There are also many short films that were available and screened in different… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2019 Review/Interview: THE DEVIL’S SON
Critica De Cine: MIDWAY
Por Liz Lopez Rating C- Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla, White House Down) dirige la película “Midway” basada en el guión de Wes Tooke (serie de televisión Colony) y aunque el guión tiene buenas intenciones, no es probable que llegue a ser película clásica de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Se trata de la batalla naval… Continue reading Critica De Cine: MIDWAY
Review: DOCTOR SLEEP
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) To this day, Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining remains as an icon piece of horror cinema. Though King has never liked Kubrick’s take on his story, the movie has certainly had an impact on horror cinema that even King cannot deny. In 2013,… Continue reading Review: DOCTOR SLEEP
Review: MIDWAY
By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of 4 Stars) The bombing of Pearl Harbor certainly was such a shock to the U.S. government that forced their hands to get completely involved in World War II. However, the imperative and impactful Battle of Midway proved that America would not be completely defeated. The relevance of this… Continue reading Review: MIDWAY
Critica De Cine: PLAYING WITH FIRE
Por Liz Lopez Rating: C- Todo mundo tiene su propio concepto de lo que es una “comedia” y si es divertido, tiene humor, o si le gusta el chiste o no. En la pelicula Playing with Fire, el guion escrito por Dan Ewan y Matt Liebmerman (The Addams Family), dirigido por Andy Fickman (Race to… Continue reading Critica De Cine: PLAYING WITH FIRE