James RutherfordMar 28, 2020'Monos': A Riveting Tale of Youthful Militants Posted to a Remote Mountaintop Outpost “Monos” (2019) is a bold and wildly unconventional South American war film that follows a group of teenage guerrillas, self-styled "monos
James RutherfordFeb 28, 2020'A Hidden Life': A Thoroughly Impassioned Depiction of One Man's Resistance Against the Nazis“A Hidden Life” is an altogether resounding true story starring August Diehl as Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who adamantly...
James RutherfordFeb 3, 2020‘Silence’: The Impassioned Tale of Two Missionaries in Search of Their Lost Mentor in Japan"Silence” (2016) is a deeply impassioned 17th Century historical drama that follows two young Jesuit Missionaries (Andrew Garfield and...
James RutherfordDec 25, 2019‘The Thin Red Line’: Terrence Malick’s Extraordinary, Utterly Transcendent World War II Epic“The Thin Red Line” (1998) is a harrowing and profoundly transcendent World War II drama focused on the servicemen comprising C Company,...
James RutherfordDec 13, 2019‘Valhalla Rising’: A Blistering and Darkly Hypnotic Viking Epic from Denmark“Valhalla Rising” (2010) is a ferocious Danish viking epic set in the year 1096 AD and starring Mads Mikkelsen as One-Eye, a savage deaf...
James RutherfordNov 16, 2019‘White Material’: A Provocative Tale of Ruination in Post-Colonial French West Africa"White Material" (2009) is a superb and provocative French drama starring Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, proprietor of a coffee...
James RutherfordNov 3, 2019‘Children of Men’: An Astute, Riveting and Profoundly Expressive Dystopian Action Thriller“Children of Men” is a thrilling and alarming near-future action thriller set in the year 2027, at an epoch when women around the world...
James RutherfordSep 30, 2019'Downfall': A Visceral German Drama Depicting the Final Days for Hitler and the Third Reich“Downfall” (“Der Untergang”) is a tense and penetrating German drama set in Berlin circa 1942 and focused on a despondent Adolf Hitler...
James RutherfordSep 3, 2019'Tangerines': A Profoundly Moving, Wildly Underappreciated Estonian-Georgian War Drama“Tangerines” ("Mandariini") is a Estonian-Georgian war drama from 2013 that follows Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak), an ethnic Estonian living in a...
James RutherfordAug 18, 2019‘Zero Dark Thirty’: A Captivating Depiction of the CIA’s Painstaking Hunt for Osama bin Laden“Zero Dark Thirty” (2012) is a thoroughly captivating depiction of the decade-long pursuit and eventual assassination of Osama Bin Laden,...