You can read up on the basis for this series here, and also find links to other posts in the series. Movies I’ve reviewed on this site have a link in the title which you can follow to read my full review. 5) Gangs of New York (2002), directed by Martin Scorsese Ironically, the flaws… Read More 100 Exceptional American Movies in 10 Genres: Period, 5-1
Dir. Michael Hoffman. Starring Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Steven Culp The weather is a lie in The Emperor’s Club, set at a boys’ school (and later at a company retreat in Long Island) where the sun always shines and the sky never ever hints at rain. There’s a snowball fight for about three seconds during… Read More The Emperor’s Club (2002)
Dir. Steven Spielberg. Starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes Helen (Embeth Davidtz) can’t figure it out. Her employer, the Nazi commandant Amon Goeth (Fiennes), beats her. Yet others he kills without compunction; she tells Schindler (Neeson) a story about how he went through a group of his Jewish inmates at the Plaszow camp and… Read More Schindler’s List (1993)
Seeing Things Secondhand 