Barbie
The results are in. And Barbie dominated the Box Office in its opening weekend, beating out Oppenheimer, which also did quite well. I'm not surprised. My Facebook feed was inundated…
Review: Little Women
Louisa May Alcott's 1860s novel Little Women has been adapted to film more times that I can count, beginning in the silent era. So do we really need another one?…
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: Lady Bird
Both of us saw this film at The Middleburg Film Festival last month. And we're both fans. Here are our two mini-reviews, which taken together are really one entire review…
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Comedy
Documentary
Drama
French
German
Netflix Original
Russian
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Special Feature
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…
20th Century Women
20th Century Women takes place at the end of the 70s in Santa Barbara, California. Dorothea (Annette Bening) is a bohemian, mid-50ish, single mom trying to raise her son, adolescent…
Wiener-Dog
Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness) doesn't make mainstream movies. They're dark and quirky and you either buy into his sad worlds or you don't. In this one, he…
Mistress America
Writer/director Noah Baumbach and writer/actress Greta Gerwig have great chemistry (apparently both on and off screen.) Mistress America is their second collaboration, the first being the wonderful 2013 comedy Frances…
Frances Ha
Poor Frances. At the ripe old age of 27, nothing in her life is going right. Her boyfriend wants her to move in, but she can't run out on her…