Movie Review: “High Noon”
A masterfully efficient thriller and the single most parodied Western of all time, “High Noon”…
Author Bob Westal
Movie Review: “Heat”
Since its release, “Heat” has only grown more popular among fans of ultra-macho action and…
Movie Review: “Reprise”
There’s a truism that while many movies have writers as main characters, no film can…
Movie Review: “Blast of Silence”
“Blast of Silence” isn’t that great of a movie. At its best, however, this unusual…
Movie Review: “Chapter 27”
It says something that more than 27 years after the murder of John Lennon, the…
Movie Review: “Fitzcarraldo”
Sometimes, the legend of how a movie was made tends to overwhelm the actual film…
Movie Review: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, a high living but apparently healthy 43-year-old editor at French “Elle,”…
Movie Review: “The Walker”
Like 1980’s now-classic “American Gigolo,” and 1992’s vastly underrated “Light Sleeper” (starring Willem Dafoe as…
Movie Review: “Golden Boy”
When male movie buffs gather, they sometimes complain that most of today’s male leads are…
Movie Review: “The Two Jakes”
In theory there was absolutely nothing wrong with making a sequel to “Chinatown.” Why not…