REVIEW: Together [2021]

The love that exists beyond hate. The number of compelling stories we can pull from our current, still-raging pandemic are infinite. How did a poor family who couldn’t afford to self-isolate cope with the stress of becoming a “front-line worker” overnight? How does a medical professional deal with making their own PPE (because the government pretends the virus isn’t serious) while also having to quarantine from their spouse so as not to potentially pass it to him/her if they unfortunately contract it themselves? Those who can simply stay home for…

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REVIEW: Trash [2014]

“Never trust a policeman” It’s not every day that a three-time Oscar nominee for directing decides on a foreign language film to be his next project, but that’s exactly what Stephen Daldry of Billy Elliot, The Hours, and The Reader fame has done. Following in the footsteps of fellow Brit Danny Boyle—whose journey to India for Slumdog Millionaire earned his sole nomination and subsequently an Oscar win—Daldry takes on the novel Trash written by Andy Mulligan about three impoverished boys working as garbage pickers who find something in their nameless…

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REVIEW: The Reader [2008]

“Only one thing can make a soul complete—and that one thing is love” What is guilt? I believe this is the central question behind Stephen Daldry’s new film The Reader. Based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink, the story asks its audience what a true monster is. If you are doing your job, afflicted by a handicap that others will use against you, can you be held responsible for your actions if your own demise would be the result of standing against orders? Should you be held to blame for…

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