Quiet dramas with older characters dealing with age or coming to terms with events in their pasts often catch Academy Award attention, and such is the case with 45 Years, for which Charlotte Rampling has been nominated as Best Actress. […]
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Brooklyn (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
Movies like this don’t come along very often; Brooklyn is an old-fashioned romantic drama paced very deliberately, without the emotional peaks that moviegoers have come to expect. It is beautifully photographed and very well acted, particularly by Saoirse Ronan (pronounced Seer-sha) […]
Continue reading »The Big Short (2015) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Making a movie about the financial crisis of 2007-8 seems tricky to me because there are no winners or losers — only losers. The American public lost immense amounts of money; the banks and government lost trust as well as […]
Continue reading »The Hateful Eight (2015) ☆ ☆
Hateful is apt; this film is often repulsive, too. I understand why Quentin Tarantino is worshipped in film circles, but I have never been a huge fan of his. On the other hand, I did like Django Unchained, so I don’t […]
Continue reading »Roman Holiday (1953) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our first potential classic of 2016 is a movie we were able to see in a theater back in November of last year. Roman Holiday is the movie that brought pixie-ish Audrey Hepburn to international prominence and won her an Academy Award […]
Continue reading »Roman Holiday (1953)
by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Deliverance (1972) Freaks (1932) The Jazz Singer (1927) Mighty Joe Young (1949) Roman Holiday (1953) I was close to choosing Deliverance because it’s one […]
Continue reading »2015 Classics Wrap-Up
We began the year hoping to see and review a movie every three or four weeks. That notion devolved pretty quickly to every other month. It simply wasn’t a high priority for us in 2015. We found other things to […]
Continue reading »Joy (2015) ☆ ☆
David O. Russell’s films often defy easy description, and Joy is no exception. It is a comedic biographical drama, although it is largely fictional. It posits that family connections are meaningfully important even when family members sue each other or cannot […]
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