Posts Tagged ‘John Lee Hancock’

Film Friday: ‘Twilight: New Moon ‘ & ‘The Blind Side’

By W. Andrew Powell • Nov 20th, 2009 • Category: Films

Theatres are packed with new films this week, including the much drooled about vampire teen drama, The Twilight Saga: New Moon; Sandra Bullock’s family film, The Blind Side; the festival favorite, and already critically acclaimed, Precious; plus the Werner Herzog film, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and the animated comedy, Planet 51.


Trailer: ‘The Blind Side’

By W. Andrew Powell • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Movies & DVDs

From writer/director John Lee Hancock, who previously brought us The Alamo, comes a drama about family, and football.


Review of ‘The Alamo’ starring Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston

By Christopher Heard • Apr 9th, 2004 • Category: Films

When The Alamo is good, it is very good. The battle scenes are terrifically and terrifyingly stages. The characters are well drawn and memorable, and the storytelling is smart and interesting (for a change we have a film that doesn’t venture to insult the intelligence of the average twelve year). When it isn’t quite so good, it is still okay, it just feels a bit slow and uneven.