Suzanne Blazier: A Movie for Every Mood

There were three Academy Award nominations this year for the sobering, yet entertaining film, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy was...

The Florida Project resulted in an Oscar nomination of Best Supporting Actor in 2018 for Willem Dafoe. He played manager Bobby at...

I was delighted to discover that the Academy Award winning film for Best Documentary Short is currently on streaming Netflix! Period. End o...

Glenn Close was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her role in The Wife (regrettably she lost to Olivia Colman in a horri...

Elated that Green Book won Best Picture! along with Mahershala Ali as Best Supporting Actor, and for Best Original Screenplay. The Best Pi...

Poland’s entry into the Academy Awards Best Foreign Film category this year, Cold War is a black and white film directed by Pawel Pawlikow...

Today is the big day when the envelopes are opened and the winners declared. I watched 14 films whose titles appear in the list of nominati...

The Favourite is not Academy Award material in any way, shape or form. I suspected this after watching the trailer, but then I thought I’d...

Seeking A Friend for the End of the World is a really nice romantic comedy that my husband and I watched for Valentine’s Day. The title mi...

Spike Lee holds a mirror up to American society in his excellent film BlacKkKlansman . The film is based on the true story of Ron Stallwort...

Black Panther has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Original Song, Production Design, Costume Design, Sound...

Roma , by Alfonso Cuarón, has netted 10 Academy Award nominations, all very well deserved. A stunning film in black and white cinematograph...

A Netflix original, I thought The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society might make a good romantic film to watch. It was. The film...

Not everyone will want to watch this serious drama. It was written by Paul Schrader, screenwriter of several Martin Scorsese films, includi...

I’ve been a fan of Queen ever since I first heard the opening voices of Bohemian Rhapsody . In 2005, I was fortunate to spend a week in La...

The film Green Book won three Golden Globe awards this year in the Motion Picture category: Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Acto...

My husband really appreciates the talent of Jim Carrey, so when I discovered Jim had starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2009 animate...

Enchantment reigns at each performance of the seasonal ballet The Nutcracker . With music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and the ori...

I am a ballet fan. I love everything about this form of dance, so when I saw available on Netflix Leap, an animated feature film a...

I am an art lover, and Renoir is one of my favorite impressionists. Last year I read Luncheon of the Boating Party , a novel of hi...