Upon hearing that Kevin Kline was going to portray Errol Flynn in a new movie, I was dubious, but I shouldn’t have been. Kline is and has always been a very good actor whose movie roles haven’t always matched the […]
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The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is a well-made, classy movie that should make foodies drool and which hopes to inspire its viewers to treat everyone with respect. It’s “hook” is the food angle — specifically its story of how an Indian family establishes a […]
Continue reading »The Giver (2014) ☆ ☆
Utopian / dystopian societal films are extremely difficult to make well, evidently, because there are so few great examples out there. The Giver has a lot of merit going for it, especially in the first half, but then it, too, breaks […]
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