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Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) is a man who’s not afraid to get down and dirty. In fact he does it every day—literally—in his capacity as a sewer inspector for the Polish city of Lvov. He knows the tunnels beneath the…Read More→
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Seat reclined—check. Cell phone silenced—check. Obscenely overpriced popcorn properly positioned—check and doublecheck. “Ground control, we are good to go. Commence movie screening countdown.” “Ummm, Theatre-goer, this is Houston. We have a problem.” “Roger that. Please clarify. What’s the current ETF…Read More→
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Sometimes a film is just a film. Sometimes it’s a director’s vanity project. Sometimes it’s a studio’s attempt to milk a cash cow. But sometimes, just sometimes, a film opens a window to life, carefully observes the human condition, and…Read More→
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When an iconic master director, Martin Scorsese, decides to adapt a marvelous story such as The Invention of Hugo Cabret for film, we might well expect there to be some cinematic magic. Hugo does not disappoint. Scorsese, inspired by his…Read More→
By Bruce Soderholm on
When an iconic master director, Martin Scorsese, decides to adapt a marvelous story such as The Invention of Hugo Cabret for film, we might well expect there to be some cinematic magic. Hugo does not disappoint. Scorsese, inspired by his…Read More→
By Bruce Soderholm on
Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) is a man who’s not afraid to get down and dirty. In fact he does it every day—literally—in his capacity as a sewer inspector for the Polish city of Lvov. He knows the tunnels beneath the…Read More→
By Bruce Soderholm and ChristianWeek on
Cursing the quest Courting disaster Measureless nights forebode Moments of rest Glimpses of laughter Are treasured along the road. (Dan Fogelberg, “Along the Road”) “The Way”, written and directed by Emilio Esteves, is a film set along the route of…Read More→
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Somewhere out there, a desperate man is cruising the backstreets of his hometown desperately looking for a corner store, a grocery store, a Dickie Dee ice cream cart – some place, any place, from which he can rent a DVD…Read More→
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In some ways, the events surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden brought into question once more the tension between achieving justice and pandering to a base motive of revenge. Similar tensions may be explored in a couple of films…Read More→
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There is a scene in the fact-based Of Gods and Men that lingers conspicuously in your thoughts long after the credits have rolled. The central characters, eight French Cistercian monks who live communally in an Algerian monastery, gather to celebrate…Read More→