Articles by Laura Francis

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire

Peter Raymont

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

In April of 1994, Canadian General Roméo Dallaire was assigned by the United Nations to oversee a peacekeeping unit in the troubled African...

After The Sunset

Brett Ratner

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

For seven years, FBI agent Stan Lloyd (Woody Harrelson) has chased career jewel thieves and lovers Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and Lola (S...

Ray

Taylor Hackford

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Do biopics ever generate good movies or are they simply paint-by-numbers movie-making exercises? Though dramatically facile and shallow as...

Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde 2 Special Edition Set

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

When we meet Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) at the beginning of Legally Blonde, she is a chirpy fashion merchandising major at a Southern C...

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Ken Burns

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

On July fourth, 1910, Jack Johnson, the son of a former slave, became the first black man to win the heavyweight boxing championship. Brash...

The Clearing

Pieter Jan Brugge

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

What if your spouse was kidnapped and your life pretty much stayed the same? This is the dilemma Eileen Hayes (Helen Mirren) finds herself...

Vera Drake

Mike Leigh

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) is a happily married mother and housecleaner with a sprite-like face and a demeanour as bright as the mantles...

Being Julia

István Szabó

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

Theatre has been single-handedly responsible for generating some of the most flamingly intolerable personalities in the human lexicon: Barb...