Have you driven a Formula One car? No, we haven’t either, but since they hit speeds of 200 mph, it must be a rush! In 2013, director Ron Howard and his producers perfectly Christ Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl as real-life 1970s Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda in “Rush”, a truly spectacular sports film. In fact, Bruhl’s portrayal of Lauda was the single best performance that our critic Jeff Mitchell saw that year, so there’s no time like the present to feature “Rush” as AHFW’s Movie of the…
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Movie of the Week: ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’
On March 7, 2010, the 82nd Academy Awards dazzled audiences at the Kodak Theatre and a worldwide audience. If you made a bet on the Best Foreign Language Film winner that year, the smart money was on “The White Ribbon”. Already a heavy favorite, Michael Haneke’s bleak German drama won the Golden Globes two months earlier, and AHFW thought that its win was inevitable. Not so fast, because the Academy knew a secret. Director Juan Jose Campanella’s “The Secret in Their Eyes” took home the big prize and made Argentina…
