Movie Review: The Myth of the American Sleepover
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 to buy into what he is selling: a loss of teenage innocence. The film opens as Maggie (Claire Slom...[Read More]
Movie Review: Bad Teacher
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 itself from the many missteps that could have been avoided. However, when you consider the screen writers f...[Read More]
Movie Review: The First Grader
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 interest, the tease that this story, based on the real life premise that no matter one’s age the promis...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Conspirator
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 assassination of the President. The Conspirator is both an historic telling of Mary Surratt, the owner of ...[Read More]