“Two households, both alike in dignity…” – Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
I’ve never much liked British Prime Minster Tony Blair’s “New Britannia” and his push to minimize the monarchy and anything that smacks of outdated vestiges of England’s past. To this Anglophile, it always seemed that the very traditions he wanted to abolish were the very [...]

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There is a line, three fourths of the way through the mesmerizing The Last King of Scotland, in which Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker) asks his personal physician Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) about the likelihood of an obviously impossible physical abnormality.
“Almost all aberrations of nature are possible,” Garrigan responds.

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I came to the screening of All the King’s Men prepared to open my review thusly: “There is no such thing as a sure thing. No matter how good something looks on paper–an Academy Award-winning writer/director, an impeccable Oscar-lauded cast, a remake of a 1949 Best Picture-winning film that was itself based on a Pulitzer [...]

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Sometimes, a phenomenal story and an explosive performance coalesce to form a perfect film.
Well, one out of two ain’t bad.

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