Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. In answer to the longstanding cinematic riddle that asks how you can transport your audience into a profound emotional state and move them in a way they’ve never been moved before, all while steering clear of contrivance, cheap manipulation, or sentimentality …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’ve never been entirely convinced that the kind of stubbornly purist realism propounded and practiced by the late John Cassavetes is as pure and effective as the often great , sometimes crackpot Mr. Cassavetes seemed to believe; it’s touching but na ve, it …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Jimmy Testagros (Ron Eldard, Super 8 , TV’s ER ) is having a bad day, and before he sees the next sunrise, it’s going to get a whole lot worse
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The word “infrastructure” most often hits our ears when tossed off by one politician or another, but to what extent do we grasp what our cities’, states’, or nation’s infrastructure actually is — what it looks like, how it came to be, how …