Archive for the 'Movies' Category

The Bubble

I loved Eytan Fox’s 2002 film Yossi & Jagger, the love story of two Israeli Defense Forces soldiers serving on the Israeli-Lebanese border, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the DVD release of his latest film, The Bubble.
The Bubble follows the lives of a group of young, liberal Israeli friends in Tel Aviv. One of the […]

The Departed

Last night I watched Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning movie The Departed. The movie was definitely deserving of the Best Picture award.
The Departed is an action packed drama about South Boston’s Irish Mafia and the Massachusetts State Police units trying to take down the mob boss.
The movie packs a star studded cast, all of whom […]

Zodiac

In the 1960s and 70s a serial killer stalked the streets of San Francisco murdering random people and taunting the public and police through cryptic letters and phone calls. The killer went by the name Zodiac. After decades of dead ends and few solid leads a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Robert Graysmith, who […]

Shock to the System

In Shock to the System Chad Allen reprises his role as Donald Strachey, a gay private eye, which he first played in last year’s Third Man Out.
In this second Strachey mystery, Allen investigates the death of a young man who had days earlier cryptically reached out for his help. The death is ruled a suicide, […]

Deja Vu

On Friday night I watched Deja Vu, a drama that revolves around an ATF agent’s (Denzel Washington) investigation into the bombing of a New Orleans ferry that kills 500 US Navy sailors.
At first I thought that it was going to be a typical crime drama, but it wasn’t at all. It started off normally but […]