— by BEV QUESTAD — How long do you keep a prisoner without charge or evidence? How strenuously can you interrogate, encourage, and even torture a prisoner to get a confession? At what point will a person say anything? Two months after planes flew into the World Trade Center Towers, the m[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jodie Foster’
Review: The Mauritanian
— by RON WILKINSON — Two thought patterns run through the minds of USA security personnel at Guantanamo as they interrogate a suspected key player in the World Trace Center attacks. The first is that if he did not do the crime of which he is accused, he would have done it if he had [&hel[...]
Review: Money Monster
— by RON WILKINSON — Jack O’Connell blasts out of screen as Kyle Budwell, a New York truck driver who has lost his life savings in a securities gamble. He sneaks into the TV studio where finance TV show host, talking head and investment clown Lee Gates (George Clooney) is starting [...]
Elysium: First Trailer
— by ADAM POYNTER — With a week that has brought us our first official poster for Neil Blomkamp’s “Elysium,” we now are being treated to the first official trailer as well. The “District 9” director already has my interest piqued with just his name being attached to the film, a[...]
Richard Roeper Reviews: ‘The Beaver’
Here is Richard Roeper’s review of “The Beaver,” starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Cherry Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. Directed by Foster and written by Kyle Killen, “The Beaver” hits theaters May 20.[...]
Three Clips from ‘The Beaver’
— by AMANDA KOEHLER — Mel Gibson. Beaver puppet. Do you really need any other information to be interested in “The Beaver?” I don’t, but if you do, here’s more: Walter (Mel Gibson) is a depressed dad who recently split with his wife Meredith (Jodie Foster, who also directed the f[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘The Beaver’
— by CHRIS HYATT — Let me begin by peremptorily answering the one question most of you may be thinking as you read this: No, I’m not high, and the only thing I’m under the influence of is caffeine. Mel Gibson is back. That’s right, Mel Gibson, Academy Award-winning[...]