The gripping new drama Detachment features a top-rate performance by Adrien Brody as a teacher in a hellish school system that decays teachers’ souls.
In a sizzling performance, Woody Harrelson plays a corrupt and brutal LA cop trying to stay alive and out of jail in Rampart.
The searing and brilliantly constructed Iranian drama A Separation won the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Joshua Marston, writer-director of the brilliant Maria, Full of Grace has made a fine drama set in Albania, The Forgiveness of Blood.
Safe House is a fine paranoid action spy thriller with Denzel Washington and the director’s pedal jammed to the floor. Thin Ice is a Fargo Lite diversion.
The Best Picture Oscar-winning The Artist is still playing in theaters.
I have also commented on the biopics My Week with Marilyn (thumbs up) and The Iron Lady (thumbs down).
You can read descriptions and view trailers of upcoming films at Movies I’m Looking Forward To.
My DVD pick of St. Patrick’s week is the Irish comedy Waking Ned Devine.
