Production Company. Waverly Films Writer/Director. Nancy Meyers Actors Anne Hathaway does a yeoman performance as Jules Ostin as the “not-all-together,” overworked, and on the edge CEO of her startup Internet sales company. Robert DeNiro is outstanding as Ben Whittaker—Seventy-year old, widower, and retired executive from a defunct company. Now he’s a Muse and sage to […]
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Film Review: The Woman in Gold
Details. Released April 2015. Orion Pictures. Actors: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Donald Bruke, Kate Holmes, Mana Altman. Director, Simon Curtis. Writers: Alexi Kaye Campbell. Background. During the Anschluss of 1938, Nazi Germany overthrew the government of Austria. Following, the Austrian and German Nazis looted Jewish possessions: art, jewelry, furs, and silver, anything of value. Synopsis. […]
Captain America Movie Review
Marvel Productions. Kevin Feige, Producer; Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, Directors. Staring: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson. 136 minutes. A special effects extravaganza with a plot as thin as a wet tissue, best describes this “moving picture.” (I hesitate to use the term.) And move it does—all the time, all over the […]
Amelia, 2009 Film Review
Fox Sunlight Pictures. Mira Nair, director. Hilary Swank and Richard Gere lead actors. Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan screen-play writers. 111 minutes. 2009. So I’m tardy with this review. Not so. I published it in In Sync magazine in its January 2010 issue—shortly after I viewed this film. Now that my new social media […]