Written by Paul Stathakis | February 25, 2013: ‘A big part of the magic was missing’ This was not one of the industry’s finest nights. The 85th Academy Awards seemed, from the red carpet pre-show to the ceremony itself, disorganized and lacked the enchantment of the Oscars despite a few moments of sheer magic. Seth McFarlane proved he could stand in front of a camera and somewhat host…
Jean-Luc Godard once famously proclaimed that all a person needs for a movie is a gun and a girl. After watching “Premium Rush”, I can affirm that all you need for a movie is a bike and a ticket. This is a captivating picture, expertly made, that delivers high thrills as it carefully maneuvers its way through the busy streets of New York. One character makes a statement…
Written by Paul Stathakis | January 29, 2012: In 2011, we were taken on a classified mission which was impossible to forget because it was incredibly entertaining. We spent midnights in the Paris of the 1920s. We watched a baseball team try to beat the odds. We rooted for a boy and his special horse. We were carried into the lonely universe of a soft-spoken getaway…
With a cast this good and a fairly intriguing premise, can director Alan Parker’s drama “The Life of David Gale” possibly fail? David Gale (Kevin Spacey) is an intellect. We learn that he was top of his Harvard class and that he authored two books. Gale is also a philosophy professor and one of Texas’ leading death penalty abolitionists. So who would ever expect to see…
