Film Reviews

Frameline 39: Tab Hunter, I Am Michael and 6 Others to Watch

  Frameline39, the 39th San Francisco Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival is just days away and I have your… Read More

June 16, 2015

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier & Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

"Speeding is Illogical" Two films were released in 1989 that had similar principals and attempts at finding peace amidst a… Read More

April 23, 2015

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Cocktail and Rainman (1988)

Cockman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Autism) Tom Cruise began his film career in 1981 and soon he became the… Read More

March 12, 2015

REVIEW: ‘Into the Woods’

Stephen Sondheim's musical treatment of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales has been all but canonized by lovers of "highbrow" musical… Read More

December 27, 2014

REVIEW: ‘Annie’ (2014)

It’s been three decades since the last time we saw Annie on the big screen and with a winking poke… Read More

December 17, 2014

REVIEW: ‘Still Alice’ (★★★½)

There is a scene early on in Still Alice where Julianne Moore’s Columbia University professor Dr. Alice Howland is giving… Read More

December 4, 2014

37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Imitation Game, Whiplash, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) Alan Turing won World War II. The creator of the decoder of Germany’s legendary Enigma… Read More

October 11, 2014

37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Homesman and Two Days, One Night

The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) In Tommy Lee Jones’s second directorial effort he gives us the story of a pioneer… Read More

September 21, 2014

Telluride Reviews: Oscar Hopefuls ‘The Imitation Game,’ ‘Rosewater,’ ‘Wild’

The 41st Telluride Film Festival is underway and classically it's one of the shortest high profile film festivals around. With… Read More

August 30, 2014

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