AMAZING GRACE is an unabashedly sentimental film and this is as it should be. It recounts the 15-year struggle of William Wilberforce to end the slave trade in the Britsh Empire at the end of the 18th century. Wilberforce and his followers were driven by sentiment, coupled with principle, to take on the big business… Read More »
FANTASTIC FOUR — RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER
As FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER begins, there is no doubt about what the audience is in for. A planet dissolves before our very eyes, and with special effects that could most charitably be described as inferior. And so it goes for the rest of the flick. It soon becomes apparent that this… Read More »