Eastern Promises (2007) Directed by David Cronenberg Written by Steven Knight Starring Naomi Watts, Vigo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel http://www.focusfeatures.com/easternpromises/ What…
Beverly Berning
Beverly Berning has recently begun her fourth career as a high school teacher of French and Italian, but her love of film remains steadfast. A former film student who aspired to be just like her idols Woody Allen, Erik Rohmer and Charlie Kaufman, she has been writing reviews for Culturevulture since 2006.
Wars create heroes and Hollywood loves to make movies about them. Typically the heroes are soldiers, not politicians in smoke-filled…
Directed by: Brett Morgen With voices of: Roy Scheider, Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Jeffrey Wright, Live Schreiber, Nick Nolte MPAA…
Cloverfield (2008) Directed by: Matt Reeves Starring: Michael Stahl-David, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan MPAA rating: PG-13 Run Time: 90 minutes…
I want to live in Todd McCarthy’s universe. He created one world in The Station Agent (2003) where an unhappy…
This is how ignorant I am: until I saw this documentary I didn’t know Darfur was a region in Sudan….
Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Monique…
Forget the movie’s opening “news” footage of pasty-faced dead people getting up, staggering around, and biting everyone in sight. What…
On February 14th, I had a brief telephone conversation with George Romero, the man who essentially invented the modern zombie…
Diva (1981) Directed by Jean-Jacques Beneix Written by Beneix and Daniel Odier (adapted from a novel by Odier under the…
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Director, Julian Schnabel Writers: Jean-Dominique Bauby (novel), Ronald Harwood (screenplay) Starring Mathiaeu Amalric,…
Critics often get blasted for seeming to prefer older movies to newer ones. Part of this is a matter of…