Suzanne Blazier: A Movie for Every Mood

I was looking forward to seeing the film Arrival . It was promoted as an intellectual sort of film about aliens, with little in th...

Moonlight has been so highly lauded (it won Best Drama at the Golden Globes this year), I wanted to be sure I saw it before the a...

Lion has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Actress for Dev Patel and Nico...

Hidden Figures was nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Octavia Spencer, and Best Adapted Screenplay at this ...

A category of award at the Oscars that is fun to seek out prior to the big night are the Oscar Nominated Short Films . They have t...

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was a great poet from Chile, and an inspiration to the masses when rights for all workers were in questio...

The Salesman ( Forushande ) is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards. The film is from Iran, an...

Divines , a French film, was nominated for Best Motion Picture-Foreign Language at this year’s Golden Globes (lost to Elle ). Hou...

La La Land is a love letter. A love letter to Hollywood, to romance, to following your dreams. It’s an old fashioned musical, an...

“There are no victimless billionaires.” The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Greg Palast is an investigative journalist who has...

Viggo Mortensen was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes (he lost to Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea ) for his ro...

Kubo and the Two Strings received a nomination at this year’s Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Animated. It lost to Zooto...

The delightful animated feature Zootopia is nominated for a Golden Globe award. I can understand why. I enjoyed this film from beg...

Up for three awards at this year’s Golden Globes, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay, Hell or High Water was filmed entir...

On this, our last day of 2016, I am posting a review of the fine documentary/biography feature film, For the Love of Spock . Orig...

The original animated short film of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! presented itself to us on the TV during an overnig...

Easily my favorite Wes Anderson film, Moonrise Kingdom (2012) showcases his quirky inventiveness and ability to tell a good story. (He was ...

The Darjeeling Limited , a Wes Anderson dramedy from 2007, has an all-star cast, and takes place in India. Three brothers reunite...

The main reason my husband and I went to see the film Doctor Strange , which is currently showing in theaters, was to see Benedict...

I wasn’t all that interested in the film Philomena when it first came out, despite Judi Dench’s nomination for an Academy Award ...