A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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Unbroken (2014)

January 1, 2015

On their own each of these episodes could provide ample dramatic material for a feature-length film. Together, they’re daunting, and the adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 bestseller Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption required several attempts to be wrangled into filmable shape, first by William Nicholson (Gladiator) and Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, Behind the Candelabra), and then finally by Academy Award-winning writers and directors Joel and Ethan Coen. Read the full review here.

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