‘Safe House,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
HollywoodandFine.com I found it instructive that, when I told my soon-to-be-25-year-old son that I’d seen “Safe House” and that it reminded me of “Three Days of the Condor,” he replied, “That...
View Article‘Searching for Sugar Man,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
HollywoodandFine.com The strangeness of truth compared to the limits of the human imagination gets a crystalline demonstration in Malik Bendjelloul’s “Searching for Sugar Man,” an award-winner at...
View Article‘Beware of Mr. Baker,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
HollywoodandFine.com With baby boomers heading into retirement, there’s been a bull market on biographies and documentaries about baby-boomer rock-star heroes. There’s a sense of summing up, of...
View Article‘Django Unchained,’‘ZD30’: What exactly are we arguing about?
HollywoodandFine.com When I was in college, I once interviewed the late Rupert Crosse, an African-American actor who got an Oscar nomination for a 1969 film called “The Reivers,” whose star was Steve...
View Article‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
HollywoodandFine.com There were a handful of towering figures in social-justice movements of the 20th century – people who spearheaded a liberation movement in the name of a principle, at great cost...
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