Aileen Wuornos was America’s first female serial killer according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Convicted of killing six men in Florida, she was put to death in October, 2002. Monster, a film from first-time director Patty Jenkins, details the story of how a roadside prostitute became a serialContinue Reading
Zora (Sanaa Lathan) is a singer with big dreams. During the day, she works as a music teacher. When she moves into a brownstone apartment, she meets Franklin (Wesley Snipes), a worker doing renovation on the building. They strike up a quick friendship that eventually blossoms into romance. Franklin hasContinue Reading
Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly) is a recovering alcoholic who has recently been separated from her husband. In a state of depression, she’s managed to hang on to her housecleaning job but hasn’t managed much else. She doesn’t even open her mail. As a result, she’s missed the notification from theContinue Reading
The key to making an on-screen romance believable is developing chemistry between the pair of actors that are supposed to be attracted to one another. Cold Mountain, the new big-budget historical romance from director Anthony Minghella, fails to set-up any attraction at all between its principal actors and ends upContinue Reading
Humans deal with the loss of a loved one in many different ways. Some press on and act as if nothing happened. Some go into the normal steps of denial, anger and depression. And some, like Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman), deal with it the only way they know how:Continue Reading
Back in the 1980s, Central America was the area of the world where it was thought that U.S. troops would most likely see combat action. Many thought the similarities with the terrain and foliage of Vietnam were omens of things to be. Thankfully, aside from some incursions into Panama andContinue Reading
From the bow of the British Navy’s HMS Surprise, the watchman catches a glimpse of something up ahead in the fogbank. He’s not sure what it is, but he’s sure he saw something. Just as quickly as it was there, it’s gone again. He hesitates, but the call to quartersContinue Reading