Seven years after Sylvester McCoy’s last story, Survival, a weird co-production involving Fox television and the BBC, introduced Paul McGann as the Doctor when McCoy regenerated into him after being shot in San Francisco (actually Vancouver), at the end of the 20th century. The story is deeply flawed, conflicts with canon in a number of…
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American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes
The next title up in the Drama genre for the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book is the Academy Award Winning American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes. The film went home with a Best Actor for Kevin Spacey, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay. Spacey plays Lester…
Italian Contemporary Film Festival 2014: The First Snowfall (Andrea Segre)
Screening this evening at 6:30 at the Lightbox is this gentle drama filmed on location in gorgeous Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Dani (Jean-Christope Folly) is a refugee from Togo, flawed and broken, he is trying to hold his own life together, and cannot even bear to look at his baby daughter, because all he sees…
The Mind Reels 