Review “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” (2007)

“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” was the last film directed by Sidney Lumet, a director with a career spanning sixty years and included masterpieces such as “The Verdict”, “Serpico” and “Dog Day Afternoon”. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Albert Finney, Ethan Hawke and Marisa Tomei. The film involves two brothers plotting to rob their…

Review “Scrooge” (1970)

How many film or television adaptations of “A Christmas Carol” are there? I wondered if I had counted this the last time I reviewed one of these adaptations, so I checked, and apparently there are in excess of forty versions (at least according to Wikipedia.) Maybe it is the story’s redemption arc that makes it…