CHANGING LANES
By Marc S. Sanders The title is not meant to just be taken literally. Roger Michell’s film shot on location in New York City pull the fulcrums which alter the destructive paths of two very different men. The script beckons them to pave each other’s roads they will follow from here on out. Their destinations can lead to…
LUCY
By Marc S. Sanders Only the headlining actors’ names appear before the title of the film, Lucy, but ten minutes into it I should have known I was watching a Luc Besson actioner. It’s over the top and proudly exaggerated in its fiction like Leon: The Professional or The Fifth Element. Because this one has Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman talking…
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
By Marc S. Sanders Martin Scorsese declared that Gene Tierney is one of the most underrated actresses of all time. It’s likely her femme fatale performance in Leave Her To Heaven supports that argument. Miguel mistakenly left his Criterion copy at my house and on a whim, I popped it into the machine. With no knowledge of what the film was…
STAY IN THE CAR
By Marc S. Sanders Calvin Ghaznavi directs a seven-and-a-half-minute short film called, Stay In The Car, that’s long on tension while limited on dialogue. Not much needs to be said to understand that a fifteen-year-old girl named Salem (Lara Hunter) is alert, yet terrified, while being left to her own abandon in the front seat of…
FLOW (Latvia)
By Marc S. Sanders It’s fair to argue that there is more imagination in less than ninety minutes of the 2024 Oscar winning animated feature, Flow, than a combined ten movies out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Even more incredible is there is not an ounce of dialogue, nor a shred of a human narrative weaved into…
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
By Marc S. Sanders The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner’s whimsical storybook fantasy come to life by means of a grandfather (Peter Falk) reading to his bedridden grandson (Fred Savage), has taken on an everlasting life of its own. Though it’s not my favorite movie, it’s way up there for my wife, adjacent to Grease 2. I find…
GOOD WILL HUNTING
By Marc S. Sanders I went to a prestigious private high school. I was never a genius but I primarily got As and Bs. However, when I reflect on my four years there, I believe I always had to bust my ass for those grades simply to keep up with the rest of the class, comprised of…
MELANIA
By Marc S. Sanders Self-absorption is an expense of time for the outsiders looking in. At an hour and forty-one minutes, the time I spent to watch Melania Trump’s documentary, Melania, was a terrible cost. The First Lady’s exploration of herself covers her personal experiences in the twenty days before the second inauguration of President Donald J…
12 YEARS A SLAVE
By Marc S. Sanders I’m grateful for those brave filmmakers who defy what is so glaringly oppressive in order to uphold a truth. Steven Spielberg accomplished this with Saving Private Ryan and especially Schindler’s List. I own both films on 4K, but I’ve only watched them each a handful of times. I recently completed my second watch of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years…
ABOUT MY FATHER
By Marc S. Sanders Robert DeNiro meets the parents! Though it’s not what you’re thinking, probably. Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco co-writes and stars as a proud Italian named (what else?) Sebastian in a heartwarming, sometimes raunchy script, loosely inspired by the relationship he might have had with his real, Sicilian, immigrant father who specialized in hairdressing. DeNiro is…
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