Reviews: She Said and Women Talking
I saw these two films just days apart and they seemed to speak to one another. Both take on sexual predation, but from very different viewpoints. She Said is a…
Review: Nomadland
Nomadland is not a film that is easy to categorize. It's a hybrid drama/documentary, an adaptation of the non-fiction book "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century", centered on a…
Review: Isle of Dogs
What a fun movie! I don't think Wes Anderson has made a film I didn't like, so that's no surprise, but the creative choices he made in this one are…
Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly funny masterpiece. Oscar nods await, no doubt. It’s the story of Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) a mother who is righteously pissed that…
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Arty Chick’s Middleburg Festival Download
What a great festival! It's my first year at Middleburg, now in its 5th year, but I was truly impressed by their selections. It's a small festival, as yet pretty…
Promised Land
Promised Land is a well-acted and well-meaning movie that unfortunately lacks the one key ingredient that every good drama desperately needs… drama. It’s almost too balanced for its own good,…
Moonrise Kingdom
You know from the first frame of Moonrise Kingdom that you are watching one of Wes Anderson's movies. They're not like anyone else's. The textures are more textured, the children…
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
The third (and surely not the last) Madagascar movie picks up where the second one left off – I think. I didn’t see the second one. But that’s okay; I…
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Looking for a good chick flick rental? Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is the perfect little piece of fluff. Set in London between the wars, it stars Frances McDormand…