Pin striped suits, fedoras and tommy guns – Hollywood’s latest addition to its film noir canon is Gangster Squad, featuring a prestigious and mostly macho cast led by Sean Penn as sinister mob boss Mickey Cohen. The...
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Pauline Adamek
Promised Land – Los Angeles film review
Timely Film Keeps Some but not All of its Promise Promised Land isn’t a great film but it is a good one, with a timely narrative that deals in the immediate sense with the pros and cons of fracking and, in a broader...
Deborah Klugman
Hyde Park on Hudson – Los Angeles film review
If you go see Hyde Park on Hudson anticipating historical perspective or an in-depth portrait of one our country’s greatest presidents, you’ll be disappointed. On the other hand, if you like seeing accomplished actors...
Interview with Filmmaker Drago Sumonja for “char-ac-ter”
In this in-depth interview with filmmaker Drago Sumonja, the first time filmmaker explains how his ‘talking heads’ documentary zones in on the craft of acting. Interview by Deborah Klugman Shot in...
Hitchcock – film review
A new movie about famed suspense film director Alfred Hitchcock that traces the problematic making of his (ultimately) smash-hit thriller/horror, Psycho, wisely uses the long-term marriage between Hitchcock and his...