Ron Wilkinson Echoes of past successes in creating the scary netherworld of the common unconscious fade as Llewyn Davis and the other characters in this movie fail to come alive. Strange and whacky, yes, but the Coen Brothers’ latest falls short of the mark set by their previous pieces, especially the similar “O Brother Where Art Thou.”
ABSCAM comes alive in this stereotype drenched, pratfall ridden but entertaining story of good people lost in the American promise. “The Fighter” mega-stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams reunite with director David O. Russell in a potboiling romp through political and law enforcement corruption in the morally adrift 1980’s. Bale plays con man Irving Rosenfeld
Saving Mr. Banks Movie Review by Ron Wilkinson A thoroughly entertaining story of the trauma and drama that spawned the Mary Poppins story and the Disney touch that brought it to the screen. Directed by John Lee Hancock and anchored by a screenplay by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, veteran Tom Hanks plays a familiar
If ever there was testimony to the homely that the truth is stranger than fiction, the story of Carthaginian General Hannibal Barca is it. Was he a renegade soldier obsessed with his father’s death or was he a visionary freedom fighter who died for his country? What we know is that he marched a hundred