Writer/Director Alan Ball, the man behind the Academy Award Best Picture winner, ‘American Beauty,’ and HBO’s wildly popular shows ‘Six Feet Under,’ and ‘True Blood,’ brings us the story of a teenaged girl named Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) getting to know her ‘Uncle Frank,’ played exceptionally well by Paul Bettany.
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Let’s get to know the film by first breaking down the title, shall we? ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ First, the film is from the James David, better known as J.D., Vance memoir of the same name.
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The ‘Sound of Metal’ is remarkable storytelling. The situation is presented to the audience, so they feel empathy toward someone else while at the same time feeling pity for themselves.
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Based on the Jonathan Lopez book, ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers,’ this film is set in Holland just after World War II, where a man named Han van Meegeren, played by Guy Pearce, is being hunted down as a person who significantly profited off of the war at the expense of the Dutch people.
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“The Climb” is a buddy movie, one with an honest look at male friends over many years. It is told with a quirky style and an unusual soundtrack. The two guys are best buds from back in high school days, and nobody ever said that growing older means that you also have to grow up.
Tom Putnam’s film ‘The Dark Divide,’ based on Robert Pyle’s book, ‘Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide,’ is about Pyle’s 1995 trek through Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
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‘Come Away’ had a lofty goal to reach when it set forth to combine two of the most cherished storylines in storybook history, those of ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland.’
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At the beginning of the film, Charlotte, played by actress Tamara Lawrance of the series ‘The Long Song,’ stares at a small bird in a cage. She seems to be deep in thought, perhaps feeling sorry for the poor winged creature who’s trapped in what looks to be, to the human eye, a beautiful home.
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“”Let Him Go” is a story of a personal tragedy that befalls a small family in Montana during the late 1950’s. Read more
The question of the day is, how do I get you to watch ‘Come Play’ without giving away too much of the movie. That’s a tall order, but I’ll at least say this to get you to watch; it’s frighteningly efficient at doing what it was created to do; scare the hell out of you without being gross.
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