The titular character in The Mauritanian is a man named Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahir Rahim), who was arrested in the chaos after 9/11 as a terrorist, and tossed into the United States' infamous offshor…
Felicity Jones, in her first Big Time Starring Role, plays Ginsburg, and the film tracks her life and work from her first days at Harvard Law in 1956, where she was one of just a handful of women in a…
If a trial lawyer were to have a superpower, it would be his or her power of inquisition and persuasion. To take away a lawyer's voice in trial is to muzzle their best weapon in a fight, and that is w…
Dean Sanderson (Rob Lowe) is The Grinder, or at least he used to be. We meet Dean when he's more of an out of work actor who used to play a smooth lawyer (The Grinder) on TV. At loose ends, Dean retur…
The opening credits of Confirmation offer a quick history lesson. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush was struggling to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court to fill the seat left vacated by the first …
Isn't it weird how some films reflect the times in which they were made, and others just become dated? And Justice For All suffers from the latter. I had a feeling I needed to watch this movie by myse…
I don't think any amount of praise can really do To Kill A Mockingbird justice. To begin with, there is Harper Lee's book, which is arguably one of the most perfect stories ever written, and was (amaz…
When The Devil's Advocate first came to video in the late nineties, my co-workers at a tiny independent video store literally fought over who got to keep the screener. Yes, a VHS screener that periodi…
