Tag: drama

HOURS

By: debbie lynn elias Written and directed by Eric Heisserer, who here makes his directorial debut, HOURS is one of the final films of Paul

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OUT OF THE FURNACE

By: debbie lynn elias In his sophomore outing with OUT OF THE FURNACE, writer/director Scott Cooper proves that he is no “flash in the directorial

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HOMEFRONT

By: debbie lynn elias There couldn’t be a more appropriate film to hit theatres this Thanksgiving weekend than HOMEFRONT.  Based on Chuck Logan’s best selling

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PHILOMENA

By: debbie lynn elias What happens when you take a true, touching, heart-wrenching story more than 50 years in the making, have Steve Coogan and

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THE MOTEL LIFE

By: debbie lynn elias An exploration into sibling relationships set in a world of life on the wrong side of the tracks comes to us

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THE BOOK THIEF

By: debbie lynn elias THE BOOK THIEF has stolen my heart.  To describe the film in a word, it’s quite simply, MAGNIFICENT. Adapted from the

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TOUCHY FEELY

By: debbie lynn elias TOUCHY FEELY is by far the most emotionally complex of Lynn Shelton’s films.  Delving deeper into structured relationships and scripted story

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BEFORE MIDNIGHT

By: debbie lynn elias Completing the Before Sunrise/Before Sunset trilogy is Richard Linklater’s BEFORE MIDNIGHT.  Returning 18 years after Before Sunrise and nine since Before

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ROMEO & JULIET (2013)

By: debbie lynn elias With well over 150 adaptations and imaginations of what is perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous, and definitely most adapted, work on screen,

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