A filmmaker seeks to reconnect with her estranged Northern Irish father in Trouble. Mariah Garnett travels to Vienna to meet her father David, who she hasn’t seen since she was two years old. Growing up in Belfast at the height of The Troubles, David was the subject of a 1971 BBC news story, solely for…
This month I head to the old west for, Sergio Leone’s classic 1966 Spaghetti Western, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The third film in Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, the film is set during the American Civil War and focuses on “Blondie,” aka the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood), who has an uneasy partnership…
The catching up on late-2008 films continues with this film, which I saw last night. If it is true that this film will be Clint Eastwood‘s final acting role, I can say that he went out with a bang. In this film, Eastwood channels the spirit of Dirty Harry as a grumpy, old racist man,…
