It seems that these days there aren’t as many new courtroom dramas anymore as there used to be in the nineties and before. The last one I can remember is The Lincoln Lawyer, but can’t name any other movie before that. They can be really exciting to watch as they really are verbal battlefields, with the lawyers being the gladiators that fight each other with words and evidence. I loved movies like A Few Good Man, Judgement At Nuremberg or 12 Angry Men so was also looking forward to Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, starring Paul Newman. Continue reading →