Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie Pitt’s By the Sea Looks Disquieting, But Promising
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie Pitt, By the Sea serves as her directorial follow-up to Unbroken. The dramatic film stars Brad Pitt and Jolie Pitt, who are supported by an international ensemble led by Mélanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Arestrup, and Richard Bohringer. In its style, and its treatment of themes of the human experience, By the Sea is inspire...[Read More]
Movie Review: Fury
Fury is a film about an American tanker unit during the last stretch of WWII in 1945. The Allies are well into Germany at this point and only the real fanatics, primarily the SS units, are the major problem. However, being fanatics the fighting is particularly intense as it is the phase of the war where the German soldiers are protecting the fatherland itself. Fierce resistance is an understatemen...[Read More]
Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave
On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[American version of the Anne Frank story]” – two historical people fated to represent institutionalized evils through very personal words and experiences. Northup, as embodie...[Read More]