History Lessons in The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd provides a warm, period look for this movie, which is saturated with subdued color, and makes good rhetorical use of the rugged landscape.
A Nightmarish Fling with The Last King of Scotland; A Dose of Twilight Sleep in Dreamgirls
Two Film Reviews by A. Mary Murphy: The Last King of Scotland and Dreamgirls.
Her Majesty, The Queen
Helen Mirren has the goods to be the queen – all the others merely players in her court.
On the Road with Little Miss Sunshine
The ensemble cast of Little Miss Sunshine embraces the absurdity of family life, from Proust to pornography.