Vanity, thy name is Lynne Alana Delaney and/or THE REMAKE. Take your pick.

Normally, TrustMovies does not mark a film with the term "vanity production." But when the movie in question is written, directed and produced by and has as its star the very same person (who also had a hand in the film's casting, production design, set decoration, and even the costume and wardrobe departments), one begins to suspect.Now, I realize that some of that heavy work load may be due to a small budget, so I must give Lynne Alana Delaney (at left, above, and on poster, top) the benefit of that doubt. Otherwise, this woman must take responsibility for handing us THE REMAKE, o

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Lynne Alana Delaney, parentage and parenting, the movie business, THE REMAKE, vanity productions, would-be love stories,

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Home-grown terrorism, 1960s-70s style: With AMERICAN PASTORAL, Ewan McGregor directs and stars in the latest Philip Roth adaptation; Woody Allen tackles the theme in his Amazon streaming series, CRISIS IN SIX SCENES

Given how life-and-time-changing were the rather large number of incidents of home-grown American terrorism back in the 1960 &70s -- as Civil Rights appeared so strongly on the national agenda, the Vietnam War raged, protests mounted, and bombings and other assorted acts occurred (I don't think we referred to them as "terrorism" back then; they were instead "violent protests" or assassinations) -- it seems odd how little our cultural landscape, then or now, reflected this.Considering how many movies, books and TV shows covered the Manson family and its so-much-more sensationalcrimes, this

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1960s protest, AMERICAN PASTORAL, CRISIS IN SIX SCENES, dark America, Ewan McGregor, home-grown terrorism, novels into films, Philip Roth, satire, Woody Allen,

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CREEPY: The Japanese master of quiet fright returns -- with a jolt

If you've seen a film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa -- say, Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata or the beautifully oddball Bright Future -- you'll know how remarkably quiet, riveting, beautifully-if-unshowily composed and surprisingly diverse this filmmaker's work can be. Kurosawa (shown below) is noted mostly for his films that fit somewhere into the thriller/ mystery/other-worldly realm. His latest, the perfectly titled CREEPY, is a terrific addition to that realm.TrustMovies would call this very creepy movie one of Kurosawa's best, except that I say this about each of the man's films. I've never see

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CREEPY, creepy movies, dark thrillers, Japanese film, Kiyoshi, Kurosawa, mysteries, serial killer movies, the other-worldly,

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Justin Kelly's KING COBRA explores the gay porn industry via some real-life characters

Sometimes it seems like just about every second movie is "based on true events." Yesterday's film certainly was; so is today's, though this one deals with a milieu that's a good deal shadier. KING COBRA tackles the tale of one, Sean Paul Lockhart, aka Brent Corrigan and later Fox Ryder, a just-under-age gay kid who leaves his California home to come east and begin making movies and having sex with his mentor/director, the owner of a successful pornography company called Cobra Video. Ambition, jealousy and murder follow.Earlier this month we covered Seed Money, a documentary about another, eve

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American independent cinema, Cobra Video, gay pornography, GLBT movies, Justin Kelly, KING COBRA, real-life crime films, Sean Paul Lockhart,

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Teaching, learning & The Holocaust in Ahmed Dramé & Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar's inspiring, moving ONCE IN A LIFETIME

The kind of movie that should thrill and invigorate school teachers everywhere -- and I mean the sort of teachers who will do just about anything and everything to help their students learn, cooperate and think for themselves --  ONCE IN A LIFETIME (Les herétiers), the 2014 French film finally being released here in the USA, should leave audiences moved, chastened and with their faith restored in possibilities present in both education and young people. Yes, that is a very tall order, and the fact that the film succeeds as well as it does is testament to the strength of its b

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Ahmed Dramé, education, French cinema, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, ONCE IN A LIFETIME, student competitions, teaching tools, the Holocaust,

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