Hyde Park on Hudson Movie Review
Title: Hyde Park on Hudson Director: Roger Michell Hyde Park on Hudson depicts the period when President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bill Murray) hosted English royalty for the first time on…
Barbara Movie Review
Title: Barbara Adopt Films Director: Christian Petzold. Screenwriter: Christian Petzold. Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Mark Waschke, Claudia Geisler, Peter Weiss, Carolin Haupt.…
Lay the Favorite Movie Review
Title: Lay the Favorite Director: Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity) If one is looking for something kind of resembling a 2010 Social Network or last year’s Moneyball type of…
The 2012 Movie Rankings: Michael Jackson and LCD Soundsystem docs impress; More indies barge in
Everyone waits until the year is over to compile their “Best of whatever” movie lists. This has become a mundane practice. Time for a bit of a change, kids. ***Being…
Hitchcock Movie Review
Title: Hitchcock Directed By: Sacha Gervasi Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Wincott, Jessica Biel, James D’Arcy, Richard Portnow, Ralph Macchio If…
Deadfall Movie Review
Title: Deadfall Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Starring: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Kris Kristofferson, Sissy Spacek Stefan Ruzowitzky’s thriller Deadfall is something we’ve seen before: a group of people’s lives…
Zero Dark Thirty Movie Review 2
Title: Zero Dark Thirty Director: Kathryn Bigelow Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Kyle Chandler, Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez, James Gandolfini, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Reda Kateb A tunnel-visioned…
The 2012 Movie Rankings: Hitchcock, The Collection, 28 Hotel Rooms and a mob of Independent Award hopefuls
Everyone waits until the year is over to compile their “Best of whatever” movie lists. This has become a mundane practice. Time for a bit of a change, kids. ***Being…
The Collection Movie Review
Title: The Collection Director: Marcus Dunstan (‘The Collector’) Starring: Josh Stewart (‘The dark Knight Rises,’ TV’s ‘The Walking Dead’), Emma Fitzpatrick (‘The Social Network,’ ‘In Time’) and Lee Tergesen (‘No…