Guest Review: "Hereafter"

Clint Eastwood's latest film, "Hereafter", isn't a film about special effects, its about the story. Eastwood is a master storyteller and gets better with each film. "Hereafter" considers the idea of an afterlife, a plausible afterlife. This film is for intelligent people who are curious to find out what happens after one dies. Eastwood depicts three different stories and how they all come together in the end.

Guest Review: "127 Hours"

Danny Boyle's latest film starring James Franco (Aron Ralston) is an entertaining film, compulsively. Films like this don't move quickly or slowly, they prey on our own deep fear of being trapped somewhere. Its a really well defined world that the audience gets trapped in with Ralston in the film. Even when he's cutting into his own flesh, we feel that he's cutting into our own flesh.

Boyle is able to capture the vastness of the Utah wilderness and very specific details of Ralston's small portion of it. He also achieves the delicate task of showing an arm being cut through without ever quite showing it. For the audience the worst moment is not a sight but a sound. For most of us may have never heard that sound before, but we know exactly what it is. Brilliantly done in the film.