It’s not unusual to see films about Americans abroad experiencing the difficulties of adjusting to a new culture. But in director Mike Ott’s award-winning indie drama, Littlerock, two foreign tourists find themselves struggling to adjust to small-town America. Japanese youths…
Based on the children’s novel and stage adaptation of the same name, War Horse tells the story of the special relationship between a young man and his horse. While the story of this relationship does have moments of charm, it’s…
Throughout his impressive career, filmmaker Werner Herzog hasn’t been afraid to explore difficult subject matter. From early works such as Aguirre: Wrath of God to later efforts like the documentary Grizzly Man, the director has explored nature vs. man, and…
An elderly woman enters a small corner shop in London for milk. She is shuffled about and ignored by other shoppers and the clerk. What those in the shop fail to realize is that the old woman with glasses, bundled…
Matt King is the sole trustee of acres of untouched Hawaiian land that he and his cousins are debating what to do with. While deciding what to do with the land that has belonged to their family since the 1800s,…
In this slight but inoffensive rom-com from writer-director James Mangold, we’re introduced to Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten, Duke of Albany (Hugh Jackman). Leopold is living in New York in the year 1876 and on the cusp of…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, centers on nine-year-old Oskar Schell who lost his beloved father in the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. While some have suggested that using such a young…
One of the best noir films ever made, Chinatown is considered by many to be the finest film of the 1970’s. Though filming began without a finished script, screenwriter Robert Towne ended up crafting a truly original story; one that…
Avoiding the romantic entanglements of James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), Roy Ward Baker’s 1958 British-made docudrama A Night to Remember focuses on the riveting event that took place in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. Screenwriter Eric Ambler based…
From the start, Warner Brothers has embraced Blu-ray technology, turning out some of the best transfers of new films available on the market. However, the studio has really excelled when it comes to dealing with their timeless classics. In the…