The Devil’s Double is one of those films that is very very difficult to watch (think The Last King of Scotland), knowing it is based on true, horrible events. Part of you feels like you should be a witness to the horror as a sort of penance, to take your share of humanity’s flogging for …
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 isn’t surprisingly as the screenplay was written by journalist Mark Boal who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq), and has the shaky intense …
American Son is a timely, thoughtful indie film about a young man named Mike (Nick Cannon) who is about to be deployed to Iraq. Only a four-day Thanksgiving holiday stands between him and the scariest undertaking of his life, so Mike catches a bus to Bakersfield to spend time with his family and friends. With …