When someone says that there is a new film based on the Holocaust that you just have to see, most potential viewers equate this with their reaction to having to eat their broccoli as a …
Posts by Chuck Koplinski:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days: A Harrowing Look at a Controversial Subject
In a day and age in which so many films are as disposable as yesterday’s newspaper, Cristian Mungui’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a work that haunts you long after its final …
A Day with Miss Pettigrew is Simply Charming
Revisiting movies genres from yesteryear is harder than it looks. Sometimes you cast the film just right, get the look of the period down to a tee and even manage to recreate the story elements …
Diary of the Dead Bites the Hand that Feeds Us
One of the great injustices in modern cinema is that visionary filmmaker George A. Romero lacks a larger forum from which to deliver his vital movies. Of course, the fact that he uses flesh-eating zombies …
Taxi to the Dark Side Explores the Hard Truth of Torture
Dilawar was very proud to be able to provide for his family by driving his taxi. Not as adept as his siblings with work on their farm outside of Yakubi, Afghanistan, the young man was …
The Bank Job Makes a Clean Getaway
From a financial point of view, it makes sense that Lionsgate Films is promoting its latest, The Bank Job, as another hyperkinetic, seizure-inducing, Jason Statham actioner. After all, the actor has amassed a loyal fanbase …
Savages Learn to Lick Open Wounds
It’s the phone call we all dread. The one that begins with, “I’m afraid we have a problem. Your father has been found writing in the bathroom with pieces of his own shit.” Yep, it’s …
Persepolis – Black and White in More Ways Than One
It comes as no surprise that Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category and has won a bevy of other awards as well. Though …
The Blood of the Yingzhou District
The Asian Educational Media Service continues its impressive series of screenings with The Blood of the Yingzhou District tonight at 7 p.m. This Oscar-winning documentary chronicles the lives of various orphans in the rural Chinese …
Reynolds’ Latest Definitely Worth Seeing
On seeing the trailer for the new romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe, my initial reaction was that it was too bad that a film with so many actresses whose work I enjoy would be ruined by …