Bruce says: “****SPOILERS**** “This seems to be the season for wonderful, beautifully made films that cannot be recommended for everyone. Sparse in dialogue IT LOOKS PRETTY FROM A DISTANCE brings to mind disparate fare such as HUKKLE; GOODBYE, DRAGON INN;
Bruce says: “THE INTOUCHABLES has been a box office sensation in France. It also has received high enough ratings to currently rank #78 on IMDb’s top 250 films. Fortunately I knew very little about the film beforehand so I arrived
Thom says: “No special reason to review this blockbuster, other than to say I was thrilled while watching it other than the too long beginning when trying to persuade Bilbo Baggins to join the quest of 13 dwarves along with
Julie says: “Well done doc that puts the obvious altogether in one nice package. It is obvious but somehow not to the current U.S. medical system. I hope that the next 4 years might see more change in this direction.
Thom says: “The extraordinary Film Movement series comes through with another winner here and just in time to be included in the Coming-of-Age extravaganza offered by dear Chlotrudis. Anyone seeing this one would be the first to agree. Having already
Thom says: “Here’s another brilliant offering from the sensational Film Movement catalog. While alarmingly anti-Catholic the film risks even more by adding an absurdist, very dark-humor to the proceedings to create an irreverent thought-provoking masterpiece. 13-year-old Marta (an amazingly languid
Thom says: “Being such a huge fan of Shakespeare I expected this film to be superlative, and by God it was even better than I had anticipated. After sitting through ANONYMOUS this film was a breath of fresh air, all
Jason says: “CLOUD ATLAS is like a whole week of going to the movies compressed into three hours (and that’s for the likes of me; for the less fanatical, a month or two). It would be a pretty good week,
Jason says: “Makoto Shinkai has occasionally been described as ‘the new Miyazaki’, which is tremendously unfair, both for how Hayao Miyazaki is almost universally beloved for a large body of work and for how it diminishes Shinkai’s own distinct gifts.
Bruce says: “It took BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, winner of the Grand Jury and cinematography awards at Sundance 2012, about four years to get to the screen. Everyone associated with the film was in agreement – the film would
