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Skeleton Twins

Sep 21, 2014Comments off

This is a terrific movie that is incredibly funny, deep, and emotionally compelling. Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hayder) are twins.  Their father committed

Love is Strange

Sep 04, 2014Comments off

What’s even stranger is the excellent reviews this film received! The movie has a 97% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes! It stars John Lithgow, Alfred

Mean Girls-10th Anniversary Edition DVD

Aug 31, 2014Comments off

Next to “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” this is my favorite movie about high school.  If you’ve never seen it (or even if you have) it’s

Three Days to Kill-DVD

Aug 31, 2014Comments off

The problem with this film is that it can’t decide whether it’s action movie or a drama about a father/daughter relationship so it fails on

Guardians of the Galaxy

Aug 31, 2014Comments off

If you’re in the mood for a comic book movie to punctuate the end of the summer this is a really good one. This is

Calvary

Aug 31, 2014Comments off

This drama (with some dark comic moments) is a tour de force by Brendan Gleeson.  This is my favorite performance by an actor in 2014,

The Hundred-Foot Journey

Aug 22, 2014Comments off

Madam Mallory (Helen Mirren) is the owner of an excellent French restaurant located in rural southern France ( Le Saule Pleurer-The Weeping Willow) which has

Magic in the Moonlight

Aug 20, 2014Comments off

There is also some “magic” in this film!   Although a notch down from “Midnight in Paris” this romantic comedy is charming throughout and I

A Most Wanted Man

Jul 29, 2014Comments off

This is a first rate spy/suspense/drama with another Academy Award Worthy (AAW) performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Gunter Bachmann (Hoffman) is an anti-terrorist intelligence officer

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Jul 22, 2014Comments off

The long awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed 2011 “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” has many good things going for it but it