Siân Heder delivers another fresh entry with disabled actors and a strong spirits I don’t think I’ve seen a movie begins with a woman in a motorized wheel chair flipping off an […]
Being Heumann
The Mosquito Bowl
No touchdowns for this shockingly bad WWII movie. Director Peter Berg has specialized in war movies like “Lone Survivor” and football movies like “Friday Night Lights.” And his new movie “The Mosquito […]
Fatherland
A history road trip movie you won’t soon forget. “Fatherland” is said to be the third chapter in a trilogy written and directed by Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, following “Ida” and “Cold […]
A Talent for Murder
The murder story has more style than the framing device. “A Talent for Murder” is the second thriller I’ve seen this month to have an author caught inside a world of murder […]
I Play Rocky
Until you start believing in this movie, you ain’t gonna have a life. It’s amazing that in the same year he made the awful comedy “Balls Up,” Peter Farrelly of the Farrelly […]
You Can See Everything
The best documentary of the decade so far. I’m sure a portion of you have seen the Hulu series “The Dropout” with Amanda Seyfried playing Elizabeth Holmes, and now, you have to […]
Tenzing
A rousing and gorgeous adventure biopic. Tenzing Norgay was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, who along with New Zealand native Edmund Hilary were the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest […]
The Social Reckoning
Like the great performances, but don’t share the narrative. “The Social Network” made my best of the past decade list and one of the best of the century in my heart, because […]
California Schemin’
Raise the roof with these Scottish rappers posing as American rappers. James McAvoy’s directorial debut of “California Dreamin” follows the movie law of dreamers lying in order to get to the top […]
The Stunt Driver
This biopic has moxie and fears as much as the stunt driver did, but lacks danger. “The Stunt Driver” is based on the documentary “The Devil At Your Heels,” in which Ken […]
