Leitch and Stahelski have a great career ahead of them as a directing-producing team.
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22nd Hamptons International Film Festival: ‘E-TEAM,’ an Award Winning Documentary
When there are rumors of severe human rights violations, Human Rights Watch calls upon its select emergency unit, the E-Team who is expedited to the sites on the ground at great risk. There, they investigate the abuses gaining eye-witness testimony and collecting facts, data and hard evidence. Their reports are sent to global media and world leaders are brought closer to decisions to intervene or bring international sanctions to bear. This is an amazing film about their work and their lives that you will not soon forget.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Fury’
The movie pulls no punches and definitely hits the audience with realistic and often graphic war violence, but it's the effect of this violence on the characters that gives this film its amazing emotional drive.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘The Scribbler’
Approach Scribbler with expectations in check and you might enjoy yourself.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Fury’ (2014)
With real emotion and top-notch acting, "Fury" is one of the year’s best films.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Sleeping Beauty Diamond Edition’
Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" sometimes seems to crawl at a snail's pace, but features some of the most iconic art found in animation.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’
MacFarlane fans will surely be adding this to their collection day one.
Read More »New York Film Festival (Revival): ‘The Color of Pomegranates’
'The Color of Pomegranates' by Sergei Parajanov, is a masterwork by a director of genius who was blacklisted and then served 5 years in a Soviet Gulag in 1973. His films ran contrary to Soviet standards. Parajanov's innovations stand today as a hallmark of vision and experimentation. A maverick ahead of his time, Parajanov's minimalism created visual poetry that was and still is unique to the craft of cinema.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill’
Keep expectations low and you might find some entertainment.
Read More »New York Film Festival: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Seymour, An Introduction’
In 'Seymour, An Introduction' Ethan Hawke shows his chops as a first time documentary filmmaker using a surprising subject in a unique and intuitive process. The film is excellent for what and how it reveals a real and human portrait of friend and mentor of Hawke, former concert pianist, teacher, and composer, the incomparable Seymour Bernstein.
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