Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier, is perhaps the first film for the blind. With prolific voiceovers from John Hurt, to explain a virtual soap opera in nine acts, the film has no cinematography but instead is performed on a set that could be used in a low-budget stage play. The action takes place in […]

The Fifth Reaction, directed by Tahmineh Milani, is a continuation of her previous The Hidden Half (2001). The film begins with a Joy Luck Club (1993) motif. Five well-educated women, former classmates at school, are lunching at a fine restaurant, sharing the joyful and unlucky experiences of their lives; the former involve work, the latter refer to men. As

Life for Palestinians under Israeli occupation may not seem the subject of a comedy, but Divine Intervention, semiautobiographically directed by Elia Suleiman, tries to make light of unhappy conditions. The humor is more European than American, however, and has little dialog, similar to Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953). For example, a man in a Santa Claus suit is pursued

Deliver Us from Eva is a romantic comedy directed by Gary Hardwick. While Eva Dandridge (played by Gabrielle Union) was a teenager, her parents died in an automobile accident, leaving her in charge of her three baby sisters. When her high school boyfriend Lucius Johnson (played by Dorian Gregory) dumped her, she abandoned her childhood

Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story, directed by Norma Bailey for Canadian Broadcasting Company Television, is an intense docudrama of a celebrated murder of a First Nations executive director during 1988 on a street in Winnepeg, Manitoba, where the filming takes place. As the true events are told, John Joseph (played by Adam Beach)

The earth consists of an external surface and a core; between the surface and the core is a mantle; in all, there are some 2,000 miles from the surface to the core. Solar winds are emitted, with temperatures that fry everything in their path, but the earth is protected from solar winds by an electromagnetic

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis is a film for cable television written by Republican Lionel Chetwynd that was designed for release on 9/11/03 and aimed at creating the impression that President George Bush (played by Timothy Bottoms) was galvanized by the events of that day to become that kind of a strong leader needed by the

Confessions of a Florist, written and directed by Frank Patterson, takes place in a small Southern town not far from Atlanta. Rose (played by Leslie France) has bludgeoned her husband Dan (played by Marco Perella) to death with a vase in a fit of rage after seeing him have sex with a slut in her

In Bulletproof Monk, directed by Paul Hunter from an adapted comic book story, Strucker, a Nazi commander (played by Kael Roden) storms Llasa with a squad of SS soldiers in 1943 to gain possession of a scroll from a Buddhist temple. The Scroll of the Ultimate contains secrets of how to control the planet, though the

Chopin: Desire for Love, directed by Jerzy Antczak, is a biopic of Poland’s most famous composer. The film begins in 1830, when Poland is under Russian occupation. A knock at the door summons Fryderyck Chopin (played by Piotr Adamczak) in the middle of the night to play for Duke Constantine Pawlowicz (played by Janusz Gajos),