Martin-Sheen Movie Reviews

Historically tennis movies have been terrible. The Break is fantastic. If your a serious tennis player then this has to be your all-time favoirte movie.

The Break is not only motivational, but full of comdey as well. Its a well rounded film that I'll never get sick of. I highly recomend this item to anyone out there who likes not only tennis, but to see an underdog come through and his bumpy road to becoming the best.

The caricaturizing of the pro tennis minor leagues in The Break is very funny and educating. Vince VanPatton does a great job of showing behind the scene situations that one would not know about unless they played on the pro satelite circuit themselves.

A great movie for all walks of life!! Definitely touching and moving. Anyone who loves animals will love this movie.

This a great movie for anyone who loves BIG CATS and Africa's natural beauty. The movie would get a solid "B" grade from me and I would recommend it to anyone who loves animals.

A must see for anyone who loves the big cats! The baby leopards are wonderful to watch. Brooke Shield's character portrays the love and concern for our wild animals that I myself have.

A great movie for all walks of life!! Definitely touching and moving. Anyone who loves animals will love this movie.

This a great movie for anyone who loves BIG CATS and Africa's natural beauty. The movie would get a solid "B" grade from me and I would recommend it to anyone who loves animals.

A must see for anyone who loves the big cats! The baby leopards are wonderful to watch. Brooke Shield's character portrays the love and concern for our wild animals that I myself have.

This low budget film starring a very young Martin Sheen isinteresting... This film is so low budget in fact, that Martin Sheen is virtually the only human character you ever really see on screen. But somehow this odd approach actually works and thematically it fits into the film very well.

"No Drums, No Bugles" is loosely based on the life of Ashby Gatrill, a West Virginia "legend" (actually, very few people from WV have ever heard of him), who hides in the mountains to avoid serving in either army during the Civil War. Yes, there was an Ashby Gatrill, and yes he did carve his name on a cave-like rock formation in central WV, and yes he was hiding out to avoid military service, but it was during World War I, not the Civil War. I've seen the actual rocks he carved his name on and it reads something like this "Ashby Gatrill: 1917-1918". But anyway, that's Hollywood for ya.

A must for Martin Sheen fans and anyone interested in seeing a forgotten low budget anti-war film from the Vietnam era.

This movie shows the impact of isolation over a long period of time, in this case of a civil war deserter living in a cave for 3-4 years and how he copes with it both mentally and physically.Filmed back in 1971,A young Martin Sheen does a superb acting job very similiar to Tom Hanks in the recent movie Castaway.Fans will enjoy it!!

This movie shows the impact of isolation over a long period of time, in this case of a civil war deserter living in a cave for 3-4 years and how he copes with it both mentally and physically.Filmed back in 1971,A young Martin Sheen does a superb acting job very similiar to Tom Hanks in the recent movie Castaway.Fans will enjoy it!!

This low budget film starring a very young Martin Sheen isinteresting... This film is so low budget in fact, that Martin Sheen is virtually the only human character you ever really see on screen. But somehow this odd approach actually works and thematically it fits into the film very well.

"No Drums, No Bugles" is loosely based on the life of Ashby Gatrill, a West Virginia "legend" (actually, very few people from WV have ever heard of him), who hides in the mountains to avoid serving in either army during the Civil War. Yes, there was an Ashby Gatrill, and yes he did carve his name on a cave-like rock formation in central WV, and yes he was hiding out to avoid military service, but it was during World War I, not the Civil War. I've seen the actual rocks he carved his name on and it reads something like this "Ashby Gatrill: 1917-1918". But anyway, that's Hollywood for ya.

A must for Martin Sheen fans and anyone interested in seeing a forgotten low budget anti-war film from the Vietnam era.

This movie shows the impact of isolation over a long period of time, in this case of a civil war deserter living in a cave for 3-4 years and how he copes with it both mentally and physically.Filmed back in 1971,A young Martin Sheen does a superb acting job very similiar to Tom Hanks in the recent movie Castaway.Fans will enjoy it!!

This movie shows the impact of isolation over a long period of time, in this case of a civil war deserter living in a cave for 3-4 years and how he copes with it both mentally and physically.Filmed back in 1971,A young Martin Sheen does a superb acting job very similiar to Tom Hanks in the recent movie Castaway.Fans will enjoy it!!

This low budget film starring a very young Martin Sheen isinteresting... This film is so low budget in fact, that Martin Sheen is virtually the only human character you ever really see on screen. But somehow this odd approach actually works and thematically it fits into the film very well.

"No Drums, No Bugles" is loosely based on the life of Ashby Gatrill, a West Virginia "legend" (actually, very few people from WV have ever heard of him), who hides in the mountains to avoid serving in either army during the Civil War. Yes, there was an Ashby Gatrill, and yes he did carve his name on a cave-like rock formation in central WV, and yes he was hiding out to avoid military service, but it was during World War I, not the Civil War. I've seen the actual rocks he carved his name on and it reads something like this "Ashby Gatrill: 1917-1918". But anyway, that's Hollywood for ya.

A must for Martin Sheen fans and anyone interested in seeing a forgotten low budget anti-war film from the Vietnam era.

This movie shows the impact of isolation over a long period of time, in this case of a civil war deserter living in a cave for 3-4 years and how he copes with it both mentally and physically.Filmed back in 1971,A young Martin Sheen does a superb acting job very similiar to Tom Hanks in the recent movie Castaway.Fans will enjoy it!!

This movie shows the impact of isolation over a long period of time, in this case of a civil war deserter living in a cave for 3-4 years and how he copes with it both mentally and physically.Filmed back in 1971,A young Martin Sheen does a superb acting job very similiar to Tom Hanks in the recent movie Castaway.Fans will enjoy it!!

Great cast, great director, great premise.. Unfortunately the film was a bit too predictable and cliched for my taste. The final scene of carnage was brilliant though.

Worth a look. Just don't expect too much

For European viewers who had the chance to see the Cassandra Crossing back when it premiered, it would be pointless to show its merits. But for others, who mentioned it "cliched", it would be beneficial to place a few words. I don't know what the term "classics" means nowadays, as appreciation requires less and less the mark of time. But there's no doubt, in my memory, that this is one of my rare classics. I still remember when I first watched the Cassandra Crossing on our black and white TV. I saw it only once back then, but entire scenes kept with me: the feverish man drinking water, the train chase, the final cut. Of course, back then, I didn't know much about famous actors, except the splendid Sophia Loren. My cinema experience was close to nothing. Now that I'm older, I could praise the renowned cast or the cinematics, but that's surely not why I first kept it in my memory. I kept it, because it was for me (and others I hope) a turning point, a "landmark" as they say. Of course, at the end of the line, it's just a thriller, but remember: this movie does have its own significance.

I liked this movie very much! The cast is great and its all good entertainment. Plus I am a scuker for a train movie!

This video portrayed the life of Dorothy Day, a remarkable woman, who with her passion for Christ started the Catholic Worker movement.

A special movie... One that is not at all light-hearted, but one that will challenge you and make you think differently about the value of human dignity.

If you are in the mood for something different, a movie that will bring you closer to your own faith, I recommend this one. It made me reevaluate my priorities.

An Inspiring Movie about a woman (Dorothy Day), her personal discovery of God, and her Quest to be in Loving Unselfish Service to those in desperate need. Truly a shining example of Living Faith!

I watched this on telvesion recently and knew I had to have the video to share with others this most inspiring story of Dorothy Day, a political and social activist who practiced what she preached. This movie may only be superficial... but it nonetheless gives one a glimpse into the person who is rightly called the Mother Teresa of America. Moira Kelly does a great job portraying Dorothy Day. Martin Sheen is excellent in his portrayl of Peter Maurin who inspired her to set up a hospice to help the poor in her quest for political and social justice.

.... I have heard many Catholics complain that while Dorothy Day did great work like Saint Mother Frances Cabrini and Mother Teresa, she was too political for the Catholic Church. Perhaps. It is true the Catholic Church discourages political involvement by her priests, laybrothers, and nuns. However, as a lay woman not bound by constraints imposed by the religous life, Dorothy Day was free to be involved with politics. This movie shows actor Brian Keith as a Catholic Prelate telling Miss Day she is an embarassment to the Church with her socialist views, and thus so Dorothy Day must change or the Church governmment and clergy need to keep her at a distance, lest they too be considered Communists or Marxists. Dorothy Day did not change but continued her political protests and lobbying for the help of the poor.

Although not a life-to-death biography, I feel that Entertaining Angels portrays the spirit and the conscience of Dorothy Day. A convert to the Faith in her early adulthood, Dorothy Day proved why many converts make better Catholics than some of us who were born, baptized, and raised in the Catholic Church. In want of a better understanding of Dorothy Day I recommend the viewer of this movie also read her autobiography titled: The Long Loneliness. Although I have given up on politics I must say I find the life of Dorothy Day most encouraging. Like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Dorothy Day saw people suffering and had the courage to help them to better lives - becoming perhaps - a martyr in her own right.

Having just her read her autobiography called the Long Loneliness I am very disappointed that the movie did not follow her version of the events. The movie does justice to the spirit of Dorothy Day, but not to the facts of her life. I advise the viewer to read both "the Long Loneliness" and the biography by Robert Coles for a much better understanding and appreciation of Dorothy Day.

Leary gives a grand and different styled performance. Billy Crudup gets killed by Colm Meaney and Crudup was Leary's cousin because Crudup did a bad thing to Meaney. Martin Sheen is the corrupt cop in the movie and Famke Janssen is the woman who is in a relationship with Meaney but pints over Leary. its story is good but it lags here and there. the end where Leary goes to see Meaney then pulls out a gun, shoots his guys and then him was surprising and is the highlight. other actors like Janeane Tripplehorn, Jason Barry, Noah Emmerich and John Diehl contribute supporting roles.

This movie is one of these small gems that manage to slip by everybody in the theatres. But fortunately, it's now available on DVD and for rental. Monument Ave. is pretty cliched in terms of it's story line about a criminal who must choose between his loyalty to his friends or that of his boss. However, the true ingenuity of the film is the dialogue. It flows off the screen in a current of truth and harsh realities that rivals that of Tarantino. Listen to it carefully. The performances are very good, especially that of Denis Leary. The way he balances comedy, which is his forte, and drama is very good. I was truly impressed with this breakout performance by him and hope to see him in more dramatic roles. Colm Meany, who plays the Irish crime boss is equally effective as a character who will be your best friend and stab you in the back at the same time. This film was directed by Ted Demme, yonger brother of Jonathan Demme, the dude that directed the Silence of the Lambs. With this film, Ted Demme again proves that he is a distinct talent, seperate from his brother.

This is an unjustly neglected film. Director Ted Demme died far too young, leaving behind a solid list of films that suggested great possiblities from the mature filmmaker we will never get to see. One of the significant things about his work is that he is the only person who really understood how to use Dennis Leary. In a word, Leary is great here. His conflicted emotions about escaping the narrow confines of his violent world and the actions he takes that only ensure his failure power a character that rivals Micheal Corleone (without the operatic granduer) or John Garfield in Force of Evil. The harsh locations, the sub-culture within a subculture, the suddenness of the violence, the twadriness of the criminal enterprise are all vividly captured in a film justly called "the Irish Mean Streets".

"Roswell - The U.F.O. Cover-Up" was a made for TV movie in 1994 and I thought it was a good version of what might have happened there in the New Mexico desert in 1947. The Air Force at Roswell claimed that they had captured a "Flying Saucer" but then reversed itself and said it was only a weather balloon! Years later the Air Force said the event was the crash of a "Mogul Train of Spy balloons". ( Special balloons with listening microphones to detect Russian atomic bomb testing). Then later, Air Force claimed the "Crash" was a test where dummies were dropped from aircraft. The film was well acted with Kyle MacLachlan as Jesse Marcel. It showed how he was ordered to be photographed with the remains of a weather balloon and keep quiet about the material that was actually recovered from the crash site; miles from the city of Roswell. I enjoyed the movie ,but wish the film had followed the book "The Truth about the Crash at Roswell", by Kevin Randle.

First off, the entire UFO scene is corroded by "nit-pickers" who couldn't be proven that cookies exist at a grocery store much anything more ("We have no proof that cookies are always in the cookie aisle, sometimes they are seen in the dairy department.."). Essentially they are wannabe-lawyers without practical information to live life by; real people need good-enough information to act on, and this film gives us just that. This is probably THE best UFO/ET movie Hollywood has made yet, better than E.T., Close Encounters and all of the other fairy tales. It takes what took place at Roswell in 1947; puts you there with Major Jesse Marcel, and runs-with-it, to its full conclusion: the worse-case-scenario that indeed alien craft crashed there etc. In an exciting, and dramatic way you see how the truth is covered up with intimidation (Your career will be ruined!) and fear and how the military/government was (is) scared white by the UFO/ET phenomena as it should be. Civilians who seek courtroom-level "proof" and "open-ness" are not so smart. There is a big differance between National Security and a feel-good debating society.

The film works on many levels, authentic 1940s look/feel, excellent music, but the key idea is the general concept of a cover-up and what do the men who hid the truth do when they get old and are ready to die? Do they talk? Noone had asked that question until the film. A few years later, Colonel Philip Corso wrote a book from his end as an Army R&D developer (The Day After Roswell) just before he died; so the question is; if someone hid the truth as a young man, would we listen to him as an old man with nothing-to-lose? If we are wannabe lawyers in our mentality, we certainly will be legalistic and not listen because these folks have ruined their "credibility". Real people, not UFOlawyers understand that in time of war you have to lie at times to protect the common good and that people/situations change...as life is in some ways a struggle, and when the time is right the truth might be able to be revealed. That the USAF has already lied at least twice about Roswell (Weather balloons, lately parachute dummies) should tell you something is not what it appears. Those that say it was project MOGUL sensor balloons to monitor Russian A-Bomb test, geee big deal. After the Russians declared they had "the bomb" most people wouldn't care if you ran kites up to the stratosphere to measure radiation. Why the secrecy now, then? We have spy satellites that everyone in the world has known about since SPUTNIK. Its not the surveillance methodology or the tidbit that we knew the Russians were testing A-Bombs that was worth hiding/deceiving about. Why use stretchers to carry parachute dummies? You simply throw them over your shoulder and walk.

The most compelling scene in the movie is when Secretary of Defense Forrestal communicates with the so-called ET; consider this with the fact that he later jumped out of a window (with assistance) to his death (murder). Suggest you read Corso's book in conjunction with this video and consider that the "beings" that are manifesting themselves are NOT cuddly Spielberg toys from outer space and that there may really be indeed a very GOOD REASON why the military/government covers up the UFO/ET mess.

As I indicated in my review of debunker Karl Pflock's Roswell book, there is an erroneous belief that if you can disprove the Roswell Incident, you have automatically debunked all UFO reports. How ridiculous.

This is the case they feel they HAVE to crush in order to get a handle on disempowering the pro-UFO/Alien lobby. When you watch this movie, you will understand why.

Roswell is a very well made movie, with an excellent cast, which features some powerful performances by Kyle Mac and Dwight Yoakam above all.

The UFO debunkers will hate it because it tells the story of an actual Alien incident including the recovery of at least one semi-telepathic crash survivor.

Some contemporary UFO purists will have a problem because of the artistic license taken and the fact that it seems like Marcel was stuck between a rock and a hard place, having wanted to release the true account of the crash - whereas now some people believe that Marcel was told to release an exaggerated 'crashed disk' report by Blanchard, which was then pulled/denied in true disinformation style.

Whatever the theorizing, this movie tells a fairly traditional Roswell story, which includes all of the main elements of the discovery and cover-up. If anything, as another reviewer said, a worst case scenario.

The Project Mogul balloon that debunkers keep whining about, DID have a roughly disk-shaped instrument gondola suspended way beneath it, but nobody in their right mind could EVER mistake it for a craft that was capable of independent flight, even if it had become totally separated from the mother balloon, which seems not to have been the case, per their own debunking mythology.

This movie has a feel about it that just gets under your skin, and for many reasons, flaws and artistic license or not, it flows more like a documentary of Marcel's life than a piece of pure fiction. When you compare the flow and feel of this movie with the infantile ramblings of debunkers such as the barely literate Kal K. Korff (yeah, KKK), you cannot help but feel that the movie is the closest thing we might ever know to the Truth.

The idea that the whole Incident was a piece of disinformation, to fool the Russians or whatever, falls apart instantly for 10,000 reasons and is perhaps the most ludicrous suggestion of all.

No, something unusual came down in Roswell, and until the Government comes clean, and stops fabricating seemingly deliberately absurd 'explanations', the story told in this movie may be considered a very reasonable possible scenario.

Very highly recommended.