Minari is very much a true-to-life story of a family from Korea trying to achieve their dreams on a farm in Arkansas. Writer/director Lee Isaac Chung weaves into a complex mosaic all the many experiences of immigration, including the blending of cultures, marital disagreement and conflict, cross-generational attempts to understand, differing religious beliefs, the complications of aging, […]
They don’t make them like this anymore. Terrence Davis like Anthony Minghella, Terrence Malik or Martin Scorsese, has a flare for the epic, the bold, the understanding of time and space. Davis’ adaptations are typically period and explore the hardships of a particular era as much as the characters within. This time he sets his
I didn’t believe writer/director Ramin Bahrani when he told me that this was a much darker role for superstar Zac Efron (The Lucky One, The Paperboy) and Dennis Quaid (Far From Heaven, Soul Surfer). The film is set up as a family drama where a generational family farmer wants nothing more than his sons to