I hate getting annoyed with movies that have such good intentions. It’s not like there isn’t a great story behind The Finest Hours, because indeed there is. In 1952, a wicked winter storm off Cape Cod snapped a huge tanker in half, leaving the stunned crew trying to keep their half of the ship afloat …
In the Heart of the Sea is based on a book about a book, or, rather, the story behind the story that became Herman Melville’s American classic Moby Dick. It was a tale so fantastical that it seemingly had to be fiction… But in 1820, there was indeed a whaling ship based out of Nantucket, …
In a gentleman’s war, one or the more baffling ettiquettes is that soldiers are required to offer aid an assistance to the victims that they themselves tried to kill. It is kind of back-asswards, in my opinion, but during World War II there was such a situation, where there was unexpected kindness and generosity from …
Clocking it at around an hour, the 3-D documentary is, nonetheless, impressive and surprisingly moving. The film follows actor Bill Paxton (who was in Cameron’s Titanic) as he, Cameron and a team of historians, scientists and Russian dive experts trek to the North Atlantic for an unprecedented deep, deeeeep sea exploration of the wreck of …
Despite the fact that I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV the first time I tried to watch Titanic: Born In Belfast, it’s not such a bad little documentary. It’s on par with the films that run in a continuous loop in historical museums, and it does a nice job of giving this …
Psst. Come on. You can admit it… after all, it was ten years ago. No matter how much you trash-talk the movie today, I’ll bet you saw it in the theater. Everyone did, and not just teenage girls. And I’ll bet you might have even choked up a little at the end. If not, I’m …