Es Brennt/It’s Burning: Raindance Film Festival 2024
Based on real events in Germany, writer/director Erol Afsin’s debut feature has important things to say about racial hatred andContinue Reading
Tag: Based on True Events
The Convert – MANIFF 2024
A lay minister’s battle-scarred past draws him into unanticipated bloody conflicts upon his arrival in 19th century New Zealand. StarringContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s The Devil’s Brigade (KL Studio Classics)
William Holden leads The Devil’s Brigade into WW2! Kino Lorber’s delivers a great upgraded Blu-ray Special Edition. The Film William HoldenContinue Reading
Film Review: La Syndicaliste (2023)
Isabelle Huppert takes on French politics and the nuclear sector in her portrayal of a union representative turned whistle-blower, andContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s The Devil Strikes at Night (Kino Classics)
The quest for a serial killer in WW2 Nazi Germany is an indictment of corruption from top to bottom inContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Well Go USA’s Escape from Mogadishu
The taunt thriller Escape from Mogadishu teams North and South Korean Embassies together to survive the Somalian civil war in the earlyContinue Reading
Blu-ray Review: Kino Lorber/Code Red’s Guyana: Cult of the Damned
Jamestown Massacre is “dramatized” by René Cardona Jr as only René Cardona Jr could… That is with Stuart Whitman inContinue Reading
Film Review: One Night In Miami (2020)
Regina King smashes it out of the park with her directorial debut. One Night in Miami affirms one very large fact;Continue Reading
Mr. Jones: London Film Festival Review 2019
The horrendous treatment of the Ukrainian people by the Soviet government in the 1930s is chillingly presented in this trueContinue Reading
Film Review: Lucy in the Sky (2019)
Natalie Portman and Noah Hawley team up for this Based-On-True-Events Biopic. The results are spectacular, but not in the wayContinue Reading