The 2025 film NUREMBERG proves 2 things… 1). Russell Crowe, when he is interested and invested, can still pack one wallop of a punch as a performer. 2). A strong central performance - in and of itself - cannot elevate a film with a weaker script and dodgey directing. And…that is what we get in this James Vanderbilt (TRUTH) Directed and Written adaption of the 2013 book THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST which depicts the relationship between 2nd in Command of the German/Nazi/Hit

Stephen King is a writer of horror, we all know that. Novels (and films) like THE SHINING, IT and CUJO has scared the beejeebers out of us. But there is also a facet of King’s writing that is lesser known, one where he looks at the human condition and in the right movie-making hands can turn out a quality, humanistic motion picture, albeit ones that (for the most part) will have some sort of super-natural aspects to it - films like THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE GREEN MILE an

The more I write movie reviews, the more I realize that my love of classic films came from my parents - most notably, my father. He took me to see quite a few movies that were probably over my 7-10 year old head (like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and just about any James Bond or John Wayne film out there). He also would sit me down with him in front of the television when one of his favorite films came on TV - which is where I discovered such gems as BRIDGE ON

When it comes to technical movie-making, no one is better at it than James Cameron (TITANIC) and it is no secret that his latest film, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (the 3rd installment in the on-going AVATAR series of films) is a technological marvel and if one is going to see this film, the recommendation is to view it on the biggest screen possible - and in 3D (if your eyes can handle that sort of thing). It’s too bad that the rest of the film doesn’t live up to it’s technical exce