Chef
Written, directed and starring Jon Favreau, Chef is the feel good foodie flick du jour. Favreau stars as Carl Casper, a formerly hot young chef who's lost his mojo, but…
Blended
Adam Sandler movies tend to be hit or miss for me - with the misses far outweighing the hits in recent years. But he’s definitely found a winning formula with…
Million Dollar Arm
Slumdog Millionaire meets Jerry Maguire? That’s a major-league oversimplification, but Million Dollar Arm works for a lot of the same reasons that those flicks did: good writing, good story, great…
The Lunchbox
In this lovely little Indian chick flick, two lonely strangers meet through an accidental food delivery mix-up. Saajan is an accountant, a month away from early retirement when he starts…
Neighbors
Neighbors is, well, exactly what you might expect from an R-rated comedy about a feud between neighbors. Here's the premise: Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne) are a…
The Other Woman
The Other Woman is a bit weak, but it does fill a void in the chick flick comedy department. It’s got sort of a Bridesmaids meets Nine to Five meets…
The Grand Budapest Hotel
In his latest fabulously outrageous film The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson introduces us to Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), the concierge to end all concierges who takes enterprising lobby boy…
Gloria
Paulina García plays the title character in this unusual Chilean romdramedy. Gloria is a fifty-something divorcee. She frequents bars where people her age mingle and dance. And she frequently comes…
Bad Words
“The end justifies the mean.” That’s one of the tag lines for Bad Words. And that pretty well sums it up, because you spend the majority of the movie waiting…
Veronica Mars
Full disclosure #1: I own a piece of this movie. Well, me and a gazillion other ‘kickstarter contributors’ who coughed up x-number of dollars for a slew of ‘insider’ emails…
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…
Ride Along
Ride Along is a typical, formulaic, middle-of-the-road January offering. Not exactly a must see, but harmless entertainment. A sort of Beverly Hills Cop light. In Atlanta. Kevin Hart plays Ben,…
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…
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Mainstream Chick’s 2013 Year in Review
I don’t particularly like lists – especially where movies are concerned because so much depends on what you're hoping to gain, and the kind of mood you’re in. I generally…