Reviews
JFK: The Case for Conspiracy (1993)
THE one documentary on the assassination you MUST see
If you only want to view ONE documentary on the assassination of JFK, THIS IS IT!!! If you want to see five or ten or all of them...THIS IS THE BEST! Robert Groden logically lays out and covers the two most important areas of the event...the shooting and the aftermath in Dealey Plaza and the medical evidence.
Once you understand and appreciate those areas, all the rest is sizzle...THIS is the steak.
Groden is THE guru of the photographic evidence of the Kennedy assassination so with thousands of photographs and dozens of movies in his possession, some never-before-seen, Groden's ability to choose, analyze, enhance for viewing and comment on the most important photographic evidence of the assassination makes this film unique in the Kennedy assassination film genre. While others recycle newsreel and previously-screened tracks and interviews, Groden spoke with the Dallas doctors and nurses as well as the Bethesda personnel and those interviews alone make this film a very valuable historical documentary.
The Versace Murder (1998)
So wooden you might get splinters!
This horrible piece of tripe contains so many bad actors, they were tripping over one another to deliver their incredibly-poorly written dialogue.
The acting was wooden, the directing haphazard and the script, well the script, should have been burned, along with the writing team.
To have subjected the tragedy of Versace's death to such an amateurish version of Andrew Cunanan's last few weeks was a travesty. If I were an actor in this movie I would change my name...quckly! Either that or try to expunge this film from my filmography.
The premise was fine...the truth of Cunanan, a self-important model-wanna-be who uses rage, whether it's gay rage or just rage itself, to slowly take over his life, and then to finally kill four people leading up to his coup de grace, the assassination of Versace, the uber-designer who slighted him by not choosing him as a model.
I would like to see this tragic story portrayed by a writing team, director and cast who actually are professionals, maybe they would be able to pull off a good film...but this group...not a chance!