Movie Review of Strength and Honor

Directed by: Mark Mahon
Running time: 98 minutes
Release date: 2007 (Ireland), NYIIFVF Premiere September 21, 2008 (USA)
Genre: Drama, Foreign and Action
The tagline on this tough yet tender Irish movie is “the battle of good versus evil.” This is a story of a single father, who once was a professional boxer. He decides to break his dying [...]

Movie review of Battle in Seattle Directed by Stuart Townsend

Directed by: Stuart Townsend
Running time: 1 hr. 39 mins.
Release date: September 19, 2008 (limited)
Genre: Drama and Politics, Action/Adventure and Religion
Distributor: Redwood Palms Pictures & THINKFilm
MPAA Rating: R
From November 29 to December 3, 1999, civil disorder plagued Seattle, Washington as the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its conference. WTO protesters campaigned for causes ranging from environmental [...]

The Pool movie review, new independent film from Chris Smith

Gerald reviews The Pool directed by Chris Smith (director of American Movie, American Job, and The Yes Men)

The Pool is a cultural class portrait of a young man coming of age under adverse conditions. This film is based on Randy Russell’s short story by the same title dealing the everyday problems of working and getting [...]

Coverage of The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual Latinbeat series

This week Gerald is doing some fantastic coverage of the great 2008 line-up at this week’s Latinbeat film series.
Coverage of Kill Them All:
The film Kill Them All is based on real life events. In the film, a Uruguayan human rights prosecutor in post-junta Montevideo, Julia Gudari (Roxana Blanco) must investigate her own family’s involvement in [...]

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film

For the legions of admirers he left behind, the late summer months can be a melancholy time.  As chatter about this year’s team begins to pick up around barbecues and bars again, as the faint buzz of college campuses stirring back to life slowly begins to rise, as media outlets swarm like locusts to the [...]

Coming to theatres Friday “Frozen River.” We have a movie review by Gerald- will this be a future Academy Award recipient?

Wow, Frozen River, written and directed by Courtney Hunt, really sounds like it has phenomenal acting. Read Gerald’s advance review of this new indie film (it comes out August 1st) here.

Frozen River is the story of two women from different worlds with similar desperate circumstances who are lured by fast money. They become involved in [...]

Movie Review of new indie film release Boy A

Gerald writes today about upcoming indie film release “Boy A” directed by John Crowley

Directed by: John Crowley
Running time: 100 minutes
Release date: July 23, 2008 (NY) & July 25, 2008 (LA)
Genre: Drama
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
MPAA Rating: Not yet rated
Loosely based on the real life 1993 murder of the 2 year old boy named James Bulger in [...]

Take movie review by Gerald

Gerald check’s out Minnie Driver’s new film “Take” It comes out tomorrow.

Revenge has long been a tenet of Hollywood movies. Writer/director Charles Oliver didn’t feel the need to regurgitate a simple tale of loss and revenge. In this film he finds more room to explore the interesting idea of how much resentment and hatred can [...]

Reviews of two new indies- Harold movie review and August movie review

Check out Gerald’s brand new reviews of these two very recently released indies. Harold and August are both being released today July 11th.

Gerald’s reviews

Gerald’s Review of August
The writer of the screenplay for Savage Grace, Howard A. Rodman, has another film for 2008. In this contemporary narrative, he gives grace to a story of high finances, [...]

Alienated, amazing high-def animation at HDFEST

This is a story about a struggle for acceptance. The film follows AI, an alien, as he tries to find acceptance in this world. A visual effects short film, made a documentary/day-in-the-life style.
Watch HD online video  here