Reviews

Phil M ux's cinematography and especially the work of special effects supervisor Derek Meddings (who would pass away shortly before the film was released) deserve praise, with the extensive amount of work done with miniatures proving that sometimes such work does more to trick the human eye than any... ...

They are the yin and yang of this family, and really dominate the film as a whole - so much so that I wouldn't have thought twice if the movie had of been called Rocco, and his Brother Simone, although Nadia does have a major role to play in the drama, and if anything is a tragic victim of the dynam... ...

Despite all of that, Leila's Brothers is a film that can really speak to all of us in what seems an uninhibited way, and once in tune with it's ebbs and flows I really connected to it's characters in a way that had me feeling I was a part of Leila's family. ...

I've read that writing about the film is considered the equivalent of "climbing Mount Everest" when it comes to film reviewing and composing movie literature - so that process looks a lot more arduous. ...

In summing up, Past Lives made such a splash that it earned Celine Song an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and the film itself Best Picture - deservedly, since Past Lives was probably one of the best films released in 2023. ...

Other performers, such as Neville Brand, were very much of the time and big in film noir, westerns and the like - Brand plays heavy Gunner - Joe Castro's hatchet man, and a big worry for the heavyset Johnny who at first doesn't look like a capable man in a fight (he'll fix that impression as the fil... ...

Mifune appeared in 16 Kurosawa films, starting with Drunken Angel in 1948 (alongside Shimura.) The two actors appeared together in 53 films over the years, including 15 Akira Kurosawa films. ...

In fact, the structure of the film - which includes components filmed all over New York - makes this more a film about the Big Apple than a murder. ...

Depending on which way you look at it, this dramatic '58 film is either a stinging condemnation of capital punishment or hysterical propaganda - but more curious minds might want to put aside whether Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) was guilty of the murder of Mabel Monohan, and focus on the way the j... ...

Night and the City is a damned good movie though, and has become one of my favourite film noir classics from this period of moviemaking. ...