Quickie Review: See How They Run
Loved Knives Out and can't wait for the sequel? See How They Run may help fill the time. It's sorta Knives Out light... a comical murder mystery featuring an A-list…
Review: Ammonite
Set on the wild Dorset coast in the 1840s, Ammonite begins with a real life historical figure, Mary Anning, who was an early paleontologist in an era where women were…
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: Mary Queen of Scots
2018 is the year filmmakers decided to school their audiences on the Queens of England. In the archly funny The Favourite, a couple of women battle to become Queen Anne's…
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…
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a beautifully crafted old-fashioned story about a young Irish immigrant coming to America in the 50s. Saoirse Ronan (Hanna, The Grand Budapest Hotel) plays Eilis who is struggling…
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…