The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza)
One of the five films nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, The Great Beauty is an amazingly wonderful dip into the pool of modern Roman decadence. The story is…
The Square (Al Midan)
The Square is an extremely engaging documentary that puts you right in the middle of Cairo's Tahrir Square during the first 2 years of the still unfolding Egyptian revolution. It…
Her
Her is really all about him, him being Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with his personalized operating system named Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). If this sounds a bit…
August: Osage County
In the battle of Meryl vs Julia, who will chew more scenery? August: Osage County pits them against each other as the drug addicted Mom versus the only person in…
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese's latest film The Wolf of Wall Street is basically three hours of sex and drugs and pure unadulterated greed. It is another "based on a true story" flick,…
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is based very loosely on a James Thurber short story. As a lover of old films, I fondly remember the Danny Kaye version from…
Blue is the Warmest Colour
La Vie d’Adèle—Chapitres 1 et 2 aka Blue is the Warmest Colour was the hit of this year's Cannes Film Festival winning top honors and scoring its young stars Léa…
Philomena
2013 is the year of the "based on a true story" movie. The latest addition to the group is Philomena a tragicomic tale from director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Dangerous…
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club is another of the "based on a true story" flicks this season vying for some awards love. It's all about hard-partyin', rodeo ridin' Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof…
All is Lost
This is a movie unlike any other in many ways. There is just one actor whose entire dialogue could fit on an index card. We find out nothing about his…
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave is a film based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free middle class black musician who lived in upstate New York in the first half…
Inequality for All
Robert Reich is the star of this documentary that examines the current enormous and ever widening income gap in the United States and the demise of our middle class. If…
God Loves Uganda
Roger Ross Williams’ powerful documentary God Loves Uganda shines a light on the American evangelical Christian group that instigated Uganda's horrid anti-gay movement. Focusing on the Kansas City church called…
Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt took on a pretty dicey subject for his filmmaking debut (he wrote, directed and stars!), and came up with an unusual and entertaining film. Starring as the title…