THE WEDDING TRIP takes us into a peculiar plotline that differs from Lisa and Murray’s marriage story. Groomsman Jack (Bart Blachnio) sets off on the road trip driving to the wedding. He has to pick up his bridesmaid Samantha (Sydney Bakich). After meeting her, he remembers her from a bad date in the past and […]
Promises! Promises! is particularly acclaimed, not because it’s a great movie, but rather as one of the first mainstream films where a leading woman strips on screen. In this case, it was Jayne Mansfield, widely regarded as a poor man’s Marilyn Monroe, who gets the honor and the camera’s attention. And, you’d be hard-pressed, pun
Throwing everything you know out the window is how I would sum up Bel-Air. It is a dramatized version of the beloved 1990s sitcom, made by independent filmmaker Morgan Cooper in 2019. In Cooper’s version, Will Smith runs away from a tough life in West Philadelphia and into the arms of a wealthy family in
Jon Hall had acted in a minor role in a Republic B western with John Wayne, but this was his first starring role in an A-budget Western following his debut in John Ford’s THE HURRICANE. He is good at handling stories set in the open, and he would make many more pictures in this genre
In the background, we detect a solitary rider, while in the foreground a gun sits on the table. Having watched For a Few Dollars More, we prepare to hear a bullet. However, what seemed like a barrel looked to be a piece of wood. The lone rider who we saw in the background, is asked
In It Takes A Christmas Village, we meet Alex Foster (Brooke Nevin), the mayor who is fighting to stop some troublesome construction from shutting down her town’s shops during the festive season. With just six days to go before Christmas, Alex has a eureka moment a Christmas market where locals can sell their goods. The
What if instead of a married couple, the group of friends on a yacht for a holiday in Phillip Noyce’s 1989 classic Dead Calm were alone in the boat? What if instead of meeting a psychotic Billy Zane way out in the middle of nowhere, the Australians came across a sinking and broken boat filled
The Argentinian Martin Donovan is a filmmaker, but he should not be confused with American actor Martin Donovan. The former Argentinian donned some arthouse fame in his thriller Apartment Zero (1988) which features Hart Bochner, who plays an ambiguous stranger who seduces his way through an apartment building. Mad at the Moon was Donovan’s second
Love Actually is definitely horrendous, both as the 2003 film directed by Richard Curtis and as a life experience that few people managed to avoid. In the case of Scud’s 2011 drama, there is also a third, literal interpretation of the title that gets very nicely explained in a wedding video shown right at the
With Iceland being such a small country, it is unsurprising that it has not been incorporated into cinema. Like many films, its breathtaking landscapes have served as a filming background for countless movies, but it is still fairly uncommon for foreigners to watch films that feature Icelandic stories, characters, and language. In this regard, it
