Film Review #167: Four Lions

Four Lions (2010) When I first heard of Christopher Morris’ Four Lions and it being a comedy in relation to suicide bombers I was both curious and concerned. The War on Terror spearheaded by the U.S. and the UK has caused a lot of controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and there have been some devastating tragedies since both sides took up arms. This is a seemingly endless debate dealing with right and wrong, but it’s a subject that can’t be ignored and my hope was that Four Lions would give...

Film Review #166: Sarah’s Key

Sarah’s Key (2010) Every few years it seems there is a new film or book that addresses the Holocaust. This dark chapter in world history is so cruel it’s hard to believe that it was real. One of the most recent takes on this painful subject is Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s Sarah’s Key which tells the story of a Jewish family living in France in the 1940s and of a journalist in the present day who is learning about their story. The film focuses on 1942 where 10 year old Sarah Starzynski (Melusine...