Ron Reed

Did Leigh Film Trigger New Legislation?

Film-makers Shaping The Course Of History Trusted sources speculate that the 2008 hit film Happy-Go-Lucky may have triggered recent FDA approval of ground-breaking new medication, placing director Mike Leigh among a small but influential group of film-makers that includes such luminaries as Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Errol Morris, and Krzysztof Kieslowski. The landmark Errol Morris […]

Alissa Wilkinson

In Praise of Bad Movies

We Filmwell writers are aficionados of the kind of films most people never hear about: foreign movies, realism, character-driven stories – the little, the obscure, the transcendent. Sure, we like our blockbusters, but sometimes it’s the little films that really sit in your soul. But that’s not what I’m thinking about today. My husband works […]