by Joseph A. Hazani July 29, 2015
Foxcatcher easily has the greatest dramatic ensemble for the year 2014. What makes the trio of masculinity so enduring is that they are paragons of speaking silently yet carrying a big stick entails. There are no histrionics which attempt to pull at raw heart-strings. We see the men each intricately become more and more interwoven in their fates, each with their desires which happen....
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by Joseph A. Hazani July 28, 2015
With Lincoln, we are subjected to a medley and almost near uncoordinated barrage of the emotional, wishful charms that are supposed to enchant the American mind, to restore and reinvigorate its memory of the President who ended the slave practice in the United States. The inchoate mixture simply does not know what to be. Surprisingly, the man himself is really just a....
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by Joseph A. Hazani July 5, 2015
This is an amusing short little film that graciously does not even tilt toward existential meandering. We have before us a road-trip, but there is little concern as to the destination, or even journey itself – but simply the reactivity of the filmmaker touring his film at every tiny hole-in-the-wall with a projector, a screen, and theatre seating. The filmmaker, from....
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