× The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is as good as its title offering a cheap knock-off of…
Tag: Film Reviews
Mountain Man
× Like a steep mountain climb Winter Sleep is long and arduous with an eventual payoff. It’s a…
Mumblecore horror
× Olivia Wilde plays a dead woman brought back to life in the chilling new horror film The…
The Dad’s understanding of female film
× If a 33-year-old man tells you a movie created for and targeted solely to 15-year-old girls is…
Track and field of dreams
× Sorry sports fans but sports movies are always better than watching the actual games. They whittle away…
Wisened looks
× First-time filmmaker Lina Plioplyte’s warm documentary Advanced Style can best be summed up by a simple but…
Liaisons dangereuses
× Maika Monroe stars as Jay a young woman who’s haunted by an STI in the excellent It…
Alzheimer’s drama makes for bad date movie
× I love horror movies and when I think of what a horror film is about there’s nothing…
An outcast in Outcast
× Nicolas Cage makes so much low-rent junk these days that it’s hard to keep up. And unless…
Far from criminal
× Oscar Isaac shines while Jessica Chastain flounders in this flawed yet likable crime film. A Most Violent…