Review: Nightmare Alley
I've been a big fan of Oscar winner Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water) since he first made his mark with Pan's Labyrinth back in 2006. He's a master at…
Review: Knives Out
I caught this one at Middleburg, and sadly it was my biggest disappointment of the festival. As whodunits go, the jig is up pretty early on. But it has so…
Arty Chick’s Middleburg Film Festival Download 2019
Another super tiring weekend in the bucolic Virginia hamlet of Middleburg watching more films than I should! I predicted early on that this festival would outgrow itself and I think…
Review: Hereditary
I saw a blurb before I went to Hereditary that said it was "the scariest movie since The Exorcist." I think they must have seen a different film. Yes, there…
Enough Said
Enough Said is really Julia Louis Dreyfus’ movie. She shines as Eva, a funny, cynical, hard-working masseuse who could probably use a massage or two to de-stress. But as soon…
The Way, Way Back
I first saw The Way, Way Back way back in early May. I loved it then. And I think I love it even more now (considering the array of films…
Hitchcock
This time of year, there’s a lot of really good stuff out there (or on its way). So while Hitchcock is a perfectly okay film, it’s not good enough to…