The Iron Lady
Meryl. I think she deserves to be known by one name by now. What an actress! What an amazing variety of roles she has played in the past few years:…
Meryl. I think she deserves to be known by one name by now. What an actress! What an amazing variety of roles she has played in the past few years:…
What an odd little film! Every few years a gender switching film comes along and everyone gets excited about it (Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously, Hilary Swank…
Michael Fassbender has been one extremely prolific actor this year, first as the arrogant Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, then playing Magneto in X-men: First Class, then as the tortured…
A boy and his horse are at the center of this Steven Spielberg family drama, adapted from the Tony winning stage play, which was an adaptation of a children's book.…
Three of the most popular books of 2008-2010 were Stieg Larssen's Millennium Trilogy. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book and there is already one great movie…
They're baaack! Holmes and Watson (Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law) pick up slightly after we last saw them in the first Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Watson is about to be…
I have to admit two things up front. I am not usually a fan of Pedro Almodóvar, and the descriptions of The Skin I Live In did not lead me…
Danish director Lars von Trier is not known for happy movies (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark) and with Melancholia he keeps true to form. The title clues you…
I have my favorite movie of the year now, and I expect that The Artist will be at the top of a lot of other reviewers’ lists, too. I’ve been…
Martin Scorsese's new child friendly adaptation of "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" called simply Hugo is the second film I've seen this month that is a paean to the world…
Sometimes you just need to see a movie that is not all flashy and star-filled. There is a strange joy in watching actors you've never seen before since you bring…
If you're just dying to see how Wall Street crashed and burned in 2008 from the insider view, then Margin Call is the movie for you. Set inside a firm…
Johnny Depp has a special connection with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. First he played him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and now he’s brought Thompson’s “long-lost" novel…
Seems I am destined to watch period movies centered on wronged women. My second of the weekend is Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, which tells the true story of Mary Surratt…
Pity the forgotten ones living in the shadows of the famous, the siblings who are mere footnotes in history. Who knew Mozart had a sister? Her name was Maria Anna…