• June 5, 2014
• Action, At Home, Drama, War

All along I’ve been thinking that Defiance is an insufficient name for a film about surviving the Holocaust. It’s too nondescript, too generic–the movie could be about anything, really....

• April 28, 2014
• At Home, Drama, War

Young Harry Potter gets to stretch his legs in this made-for-TV historical drama, and redeems himself quite nicely, I must say. In fact, except for the initial jolt of...

• March 17, 2014
• At Home, Drama, War

Much in the same way the original World War II footage is almost seamlessly interwoven with the narrative story of this curiously forgotten film, it is almost as difficult...

• March 5, 2014
• At Home, Drama, War

When I had heard that The Book Thief was being made into a movie, I pitied the director who would be faced with the challenge of adapting such a...

• January 8, 2014
• At Home, Drama, War

I visited Cambodia a few years ago—it’s a beautiful country with lovely land and a youthful population (which betrays the millions killed during the Khmer Rouge’s reign in the...

• December 1, 2013
• At Home, Drama, War

I have no idea why it took me so long to see the 1946 Best Picture Oscar-winner The Best Years of Our Lives. I, like many movie-lovers, went through...

• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s tale of an Iraq war bomb squad is a lesson in film editing for maximum impact. The Hurt Locker has the urgency of news footage (which...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

A refreshingly sweet yet no-nonsense love story, the Israeli gay-soldier romance Yossi & Jagger manages to do in a brisk 65 minutes what so many American films of the...

• September 30, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

If it weren’t for the fact that The Big Parade came out in 1925, four years before the first Oscar was awarded, it would probably now be included as...

• September 23, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

Perhaps showing what a timeless classic it is, Casablanca has provoked different reactions in me depending on when in my life I saw the film. I first watched it...

• September 9, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

There are many Best Picture winners, true classics from Golden Age of Hollywood, that stand the test of time, like Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night, or...

• September 8, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama, Romance, War

Hanover Street was recommended to me by the same co-worker who told me to watch 3 Days of the Condor. I cannot believe she felt the need to qualify...