This epic love story set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Civil War is the miraculous blending of harsh, physical conflict with the most romantic and poetic of longings. Lovingly adapted from Charles Frazier’s novel, Anthony Minghella has structured the screenplay flawlessly, allowing the storytelling rhythms from flashback to the present, back and forth, to reach its crescendo, as Inman and Ada are reunited and become one.... Source: Urban Cinefile  more

Laughter and pathos are joined at the hip in Stuck on You, an uproarious and good-natured comedy from the Farrelly Brothers about conjoined twins. It takes a pretty extraordinary cast and script to carry off this politically incorrect concept... Source: Urban Cinefile  more

From the old fashioned font of the opening credits to the old fashioned pastoral score, Open Range is an old fashioned movie, paying tribute to the clichees of the Western, romanticising the free range men or freegrazers whose era was coming to an end in the 1880s. Unfortunately, this also means romanticising the violent gunfights, and in the post Bowling For Columbine era, the film is on rocky ground trying to make the good guys look good.... Source: Urban Cinefile  more