Author Archives: Tony Trupiano
Billed as a coming of age film, The Myth of the American Sleepover by first time writer/director David Robert Mitchell shows some promise with a script that almost captures an understanding of a time most of us will fondly remember but doesn't do so with enough imagination and emotion to get us t...
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Bad Teacher did two things for me that were unexpected, very unexpected: it kept me watching and it kept my interest. As hard as I tried to not like this movie, between a very clever script and a not too bad cast and maybe even a little direction that we can make note of, Bad Teacher redeems itse...
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For this reviewer, The First Grader, produced by National Geographic Entertainment, promised to be a heartfelt story about overcoming many of the things that Americans take for granted, and there are many. Beyond what I expected to be a terrific story that would entice my political yearnings and ...
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This weekend marks a hardly known Federal holiday that commemorates the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. As a lover of history and of this particular President, I was anticipating the telling of a little known story that took place after the a...
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