Suzanne Blazier: A Movie for Every Mood

Mamma Mia! I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing this musical on stage yet and have always wanted to. I know it’s still ...

Let It Go It appears I am reviewing films having a theme of music lately. This is a bit of an accident, although a happy one. ...

Love & Mercy , a film from 2015, is the story of Brian Wilson, the gifted musician behind much of the Beach Boys bes...

Sing Street trailer I’m a member of the Regal Crown Club, one of those many rewards programs where you get free movie ...

When I was in my teens, my parents allowed me to stay up late after everyone else had gone to bed and watch Alfred Hitch...

The Best Offer is a 2013 drama/romantic mystery, filmed in Italy, and written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (known for Cinema...

Tracks is an Australian adventure, biography, drama based on the real life adventures of Robyn Davidson. Robyn Davidson wrote a bo...

Veteran actress Maggie Smith is The Lady in the Van , which is a film that is noted to be a “mostly true story” in the opening credits. The...

Amy was the fourth Academy Award nominated documentary feature that I watched this awards season. It is also the documentary that took h...

The third Academy Award nominated documentary I’ve seen this year, Cartel Land held me riveted from the opening sequence. The drug cartel...

A revenant is a visible ghost or an animated corpse that has returned from the grave to terrorize the living. The Revenant is thus an ap...

Freedom and human dignity. That’s what Ukrainians were fighting for in 2013-2014 when their president betrayed them by choosing to align ...

With 2016 being a leap year, I decided to watch the romantic comedy Leap Year , partially for the plot, and partially because it stars actr...

I have long been a fan of singer Nina Simone. Her distinctive voice and the way she sings the blues are a favorite of mine. In fact, one of...

I’ve found my favorite film of the Academy Award season. Spotlight is based on the true story of how a team of investigative journalists ...

Star Wars . It’s a film experience that started for me in 1977. I have seen every installment in the theater, all six of...

My maternal grandparents immigrated to America in the late 1800’s from Denmark and Norway. My interest in Brooklyn stemm...

Joy . The name of a woman I had never heard of, and upon watching her story, will never forget. This film by David O. Russell is based on...

The Big Short was a film I was hoping would be understandable and entertaining, despite its subject: the housing crisis and fraud that t...

Beasts of No Nation is a film about the experiences of Agu, a young West African boy recruited into a rebel militia after ...