The Arts – JustMeMike's New BlogToday’s Special is a 2009 film directed by David Kaplan. It’s a feel good film about food, and I’m offering this review with a dedication to those folks who regularly ride the 7 Train from Queens, NY into Manhattan. This is the subway that takes you from the Main St. Station in Flushing, Queens, past [...]
Continuing our modest run of French thrillers – this time out it is the 2001 release Read My Lips. While not a simple two character film, Read My Lips concentrates our attention on Emmanuelle Devos as a Parisian secretary at a firm that bids for land development/apartment complex construction jobs. Her name is Carla. She’s [...]
Tell No One is a French mystery/thriller from 2006. The film is directed by Guillaume Canet who also co-wrote the screenplay with Philippe Lefebre adapting the Harlan Coben novel of the same name. It has its moments of high excitement and danger, as well as times when it moves slowly. It plays like a Hitchcock [...]
HBO Films’ Hemingway & Gellhorn I suppose you could give this film a secondary title like Ernest ‘Papa’ Hemingway and Mrs Martha Gellhorn Hemingway Go To War. That would be correct in both the literal sense as well as the figurative. It seemed like bombs were bursting from the moment they first laid eyes on [...]
If you read my posts regularly then you know I have a fondness for films that are about restaurants and or cooking. I’ve had pretty good luck dealing with films or an occasional TV series from Japan that fit into this genre. So when another film in this niche popped onto my radar – I [...]
So did you see the Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie ‘thriller’ called The Tourist back in 2010. I did and I didn’t think much of it. My review is here. Well, The Tourist was the remake of this film called Anthony Zimmer. Zimmer is an international criminal. He’s been on the wanted list of the [...]
Good Night, and Good Luck is not only the title of the film, but it was also famed journalist and TV newsman Edward R. Murrow’s signature sign-off at the conclusion of his broadcasts. The film begins at an industry dinner to honor Murrow. In 1958, Edward R. Murrow, speaking at the Radio-Television Directors Association annual [...]
