Suzanne Blazier: A Movie for Every Mood

I remember watching Diane Lane for the first time in A Little Romance when she was only 13 years old. I’ve been a fan of hers eve...

The Blue Bird has got to be one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. Starring Shirley Temple, the film was released in 1940...

My husband had never seen the movie Mary Poppins . His favorite movie from childhood is The Wizard of Oz , so we made a deal to w...

Café Society is a classic Woody Allen offering. Taking place in the 1930’s in Hollywood and in New York City, he used the old jazz tunes h...

The French film Cezanne et Moi recalls the friendship of artist Paul Cezanne, and writer Emile Zola. The film is rated R for language, se...

The Zookeeper’s Wife is based on a true story about the Nazi occupation of Warsaw Poland during World War II. It is rated PG-13 ...

The only reason my friend and I went to see The Great Wall at the dollar theater is because it starred Matt Damon. We are fans of...

Today is the day bloggers post their reflections on the Blogging Challenge experience. I’m glad I participated this year, and met ...

I shall remember April 2017 as the month I posted 26 movie reviews. Averaging about 500 words per review, this was no small feat....

There were no movies that won for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards that began with the letter Z. So I s...

Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too ), is a 2001 film by Alfonso Cuaron that was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the ...

There were no winning films for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards beginning with the letter X, so I chose Ex Machina ...

Witness is a movie that more than one screenwriter instructor has touted as one of the best written screenplays in film. It won B...

Vera Drake , released in 2004, was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards, but lost to Eternal Sunshine of t...

I remember seeing The Usual Suspects when it was first released in 1995. It begins in a kind of film noir setting, the music befi...

Talk to Her (Hable con elle) is a Spanish film from 2002, written and directed by Pedro Almodovar. It won Best Original Screenpla...

Shakespeare in Love , released in 1998, won seven Oscars at the Academy Awards. It’s a fictional tale about William Shakespeare, s...

The Red Balloon ( Le ballon rouge ) is an interesting exception to a winning Best Original Screenplay in that it is a short film....

The Queen , released in 2006, was nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and Best Original Screenplay. I couldn...

Released in 1993, The Piano won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay for Jane Campion, who was also the director, Best Act...