By Mark Special to The Dagger “What makes you think the thing you have at the moment is life? – Caesar to his former legionary I I stand and the doorway and watch him struggle to lift himself out of his wheelchair. Visibly shaking and exhausted by the effort, he slowly pulls himself upward […]
Movie Review: “Red”
By Mark Special to The Dagger All of us dream of a day when we will walk into our work place for the last time, eat cake with “Happy Retirement” written on it, and joyfully walk out the door to enjoy the extended vacation we have earned. Of course, like many things in life, this […]
Tito’s Netflix Queue: Let The Right One In, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
If you haven’t caught on so far, I try to pick movies based on a central theme. This month, in response to the remake by a major Hollywood studio of one of my favorite films viewed last year, I’ve decided to cover that and another soon to be remade. While there are arguments for and […]
Movie Review: “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
By Mark Special to The Dagger In the wake of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi’s suicide, the media has focused on the growing problem of childhood depression. Much of the discussion has keyed on reducing bullying, but at a subtler level the debate has touched on the more taboo subject of emotional and mental health. At […]
Movie Review: “Buried”
By Mark Special to The Dagger A complex narrative in a deceptively simple setting, Buried provides suspense and thrills, but loses its way while trying to be too many things. Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a civilian truck driver who is captured in Iraq by insurgents and awakens in a coffin buried somewhere in the […]
2nd Annual Bel Air Film Festival Kicks off at Bel Air Armory October 22-24
From Harford Center for the Arts: The Bel Air Cultural Arts Commission announces the 2010 Town of Bel Air Film Festival to be held October 22-24, 2010 at the Bel Air Reckord Armory, 37 North Main Street in Bel Air. This year’s movie lineup features intriguing, moving, and thought provoking films from around the world. […]
Movie Review: ‘Going the Distance’
(Jessica Miglio/Warner Bros.) Long-distance relationships are the center of study in Going the Distance, Warner Bros’ unexpectedly bawdy, often quite funny end-of-summer entry. But the film itself struggles to survive at least as much as its bicoastal pair of leading lovers. You see, it’s hard out there for a romantic comedy. In the age of […]
Movie Review: ‘The American’
(Giles Keyte/Focus) It requires careful skill to be an assassin: exemplary marksmanship, precision in movement, and certainty in intention. The same can be said of successful filmmaking, and even of convincing performance. It’s a good thing, then, that Focus Features’ The American, a meticulously crafted, retro-styled exercise in vigilance and meditation, subsists on those who […]
