Director Phillip Noyce is probably one of my favorite under-appreciated directors working today. He has an impressive resume with directing films like “Patriot Games”, “Rabbit-Proof Fence”, “Dead Calm”, “The Bone Collector” and “The Quiet American”. With “Rabbit-Proof Fence”, Noyce began a trilogy of films that explores oppression in three different corners of the globe. In…
When I heard the name of this film the first thing that came to mind was that Disney film film from the 1970s called “The World’s Fastest Athlete”. I was not familiar with the life and legacy of Burt Munro and that there was a classic motorcycle called an Indian. New Zealand born Burt Munro…
A gruesome thriller compared to movie heavyweights like “Seven” and “Silence of the Lambs”. How does it stack up? Well first here’s the premise. Paraplegic Forensics Officer Lincoln “Link” Rhyme (Denzel Washington) is asked to help in solving a series of gruesome cases. Where something is always surgically removed and linked back to the turn…
It is no wonder that this is probably the most overlooked and little seen movie of 2002. The biggest shame is that it probably should have been mentioned during the hush-hush whispering that has invigorated films like “The Hours” and “Far From Heaven”. The latter two films will probably go on to win Oscars and go down in history…
Written: December 4, 2002 In a year so full of Hollywood sequels, escapes and disappointments, you often have to mine a foreign country’s film vault to find a movie that reminds you what makes film so powerful. In this case, the country is Australia and the film is Rabbit Proof Fence. During the 1930s in…
