Headlining the film Glenn Close gives a magnificent performance as the title character in Albert Nobbs. The very emotional and tragic drama provides a platform for her amazing talent. Including a noted cast, fine direction by Rodrigo Garcia and remarkable cinematography that sets the bleak Irish period, the movie wins big.
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ALBERT NOBBS, Top Drawer
January 26th, 2012 
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CARNAGE. A Battle of Wits then War
January 12th, 2012 John Delia Bizarre and yet a tasty morsel, Carnage is one of those ‘fly on the wall’ films where in this case you get to watch the decay of one’s social skills and can laugh without them hearing you. It’s four stellar actors in a room with a very wacky script and a tall order […]
IRON LADY, a Gifted Performance as Thatcher
January 12th, 2012 John Delia With a genuinely gifted performance, Meryl Streep depicts Margaret Thatcher one of the world’s greatest leaders in The Iron Lady. Thatcher served as the longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and during some of the most trying times. If you like biographies, real life stores and historical happenings, The Iron Lady […]
Documentary: “Surviving Japan” is a Real Eye-Opener on the Fukushima Disaster
January 7th, 2012 Beyond the Marquee A new documentary video by Chris Noland (a Tsunami Relief volunteer and Independent Director) has been taising eyebrows on the International front as he poses questions about the Japanese government putting the interest of the nuclear power industry before the lives of Japanese citizens.
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY its Mind Numbing
January 5th, 2012 John Delia The British movie Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is not for everyone. It’s a mind-numbing film for audiences that crave an involving storyline, can deal with British accents and are into the underpinning of espionage that fueled The Cold War in the 1970’s. I am not a big fan of films like this one, but […]
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Guilty Pleasures and the Films of Robert Rodriguez
January 2nd, 2012 Geoffrey Geib Film critic Pauline Kael famously once wrote/said[1], “Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.” One man’s treasure is another man’s Indiana Jones and the One With the Alien Ending, and so in honor of all the great trash […]
The Top Ten films for 2011 According to Delia
December 28th, 2011 John Delia In 2011 I saw 200 plus films, not counting the Independent offers viewed at film festivals or sent to my home for comment. This was not a year for bragging rights with too many sequels, enough superhero’s to save several planets, repetitious storylines, not enough good drama, a lot of raunchy romance with more […]
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