Ordinary People
I’ve seen Ordinary People twice before, but I wanted to get back to it again after the passing of Mary Tyler Moore. Her atypical role as an uncaring mother here […]
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer seems like one of the overlooked BP winners, one that was probably a big deal at the time but just seems like Oscar bait now. That’s probably […]
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons starts the long and tragic tradition of studio interference with the films of Orson Welles. Some mark The Magnificent Ambersons above Citizen Kane, and maybe I could […]
The Sugarland Express
This post is part of the SPIELBERG BLOGATHON hosted by Outspoken & Freckled, It Rains… You Get Wet, and Citizen Screenings taking place August 23-24. Please visit these host blogs for […]
The Darjeeling Limited
The Darjeeling Limited is the second Wes Anderson film I’ve seen. I did mean to check out more of his films since seeing Moonrise Kingdom last year, but have not […]
The Place Beyond the Pines
Reviews for The Place Beyond the Pines have been kind of mixed so far, with most reviewers of the opinion that it is very ambitious, but the difference of opinions […]
Gone Baby Gone
I’m getting into a lot of directorial debuts lately. It’s been pretty interesting. Ben Affleck is getting to be pretty darn respected as a director, despite the academy snub this […]
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Man, this movie is really sixties. From the second it starts up you see a plane coming in, in all of its technicolor glory, and this schmaltzy sixties song comes […]
Stoker
I was originally on the fence about seeing Stoker, but I’ve been dying to get to 2013 films already and this was starting to sound less creepy than I had […]
The Lion in Winter
If you mixed The Godfather with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, set it in medieval England, and changed all the actors, you would end up with The Lion in Winter. […]
The Soul of the Plot 