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When you hear titles like Fail-Safe, 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network and The Verdict, you are reminded of a group of well-made films by a genuine filmmaker Sidney Lumet.  What makes his films so great is his casting.  Network is a fine example with William Holden, Robert Duvall, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway [...]

The Black Balloon, an award winning Australian film, is a little gem of an independent film concerning two brothers with a very pregnant mother (Toni Collette) and a military father (Erik Thomson). They have just moved and the youngest brother Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) is a kind, handsome teenager, who catches the eye of the high [...]

I watched the movie Protégé the other night. Directed by Tung-Shing Yee with a cast of Asian cinema luminaries such as Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers), Daniel Wu (Legend of the Black Scorpion), Louis Koo (Flash Point) and Jingchu Zhang (Seven Swords), Protégé is the narrative about a young cop infiltrating the deepest levels [...]

A film version of the writer / director John Patrick Shanley of his Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning stage play, <Doubt> keeps the simple story skeleton of general drama plays and gives a broad ground for the actors to freely deliver the most tension in their actings.
Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl [...]

If you decide to watch Grace is Gone, realize this story may require lots of Kleenex. But it’s worth the pleasure of viewing because you enter the private world of a military family that only a few have ever journeyed.
Golden Globe nominee John Cusack (1408, High Fidelity) plays Stanley, a family man whose wife dies [...]