Today is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY and I embrace all my sisters the world over! Female empowerment is one of THE pivotal issues of the 21st century and I am about to add fuel to the fire. I have just finished watching one of the most infuriating movies I have ever seen. It’s a 90-minute documentary [...]
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a killer film that will leave you breathing hard, and thinking at warp speed. Directed by David Fincher and based on the smash international best-selling trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson, the American version is not as viscerally affecting as its Swedish cousin, but packs mighty tension into [...]
TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN is the single most effective antidote to teen pregnancy I've ever seen. It's cinematic birth control. Send your teenagers. I saw it Monday afternoon in a theater with mostly single older ladies and one mother/daughter pair who apparently had not read the books; they looked shell-shocked as the credits rolled. The film [...]
This movie, is quite simply, THE BEST FILM I'VE SEEN IN MONTHS! In the run-off toward the OSCARS, CLOONEY and THE DESCENDANTS are a shoe-in for nominatons. So sit back, relax, and prepare for a Hawaiian vacation-- but not the usual exotic escapade. In THE DESCENDANTS, filmmaker Alexander Payne (SIDEWAYS, ELECTION, ABOUT SCHMIDT ...) with [...]
J.EDGAR-- Clint Eastwood's latest directorial effort--is a mess from every point of view with the exception of Leonardo DiCaprio. He is one brave actor. As J. Edgar Hoover-- the creator and first chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-- DiCaprio survives despite layers of makeup, a melodramatic jumble of a script, bad accents, and tonal [...]
I've been without power for three days and could barely wait to post this-- I finally saw one of the BEST MOVIES out there right now: MARGIN CALL which portrays a long hard day in the life of an investment banking house -- not just any day-- the day in September 2008 when all the financial houses [...]
THE BIG YEAR is a small miracle of a movie. It makes watching birds downright THRILLING! From pipits to plovers, bobolinks to boobies, gulls to godwits, and titmice to tanagers -- stop me before I go cuckoo...THE BIG YEAR is a quietly funny, absorbing flight of fancy that made my heart take wing! I, who [...]
THE IDES OF MARCH is one smart, streamlined, and brutally transparent political thriller that doesn't so much tell us what we didn't already know, but rather gobsmacks us again with one of the oldest stories in the world. As the unsuspecting Julius Caesar discovered in 44BC, there's a fine line between enemies and friends, ambition [...]
I just became a contributor to EXHALE magazine and here's my first article all about the Fall Movie Season beginning with 50/50! (Ironically I am also a 3X cancer survivor, and am the subject of a separate feature story in the same issue of EXHALE about that experience.) Now that the car crashes of summer [...]
Perhaps the Red Sox should take a break, take a field trip, and see if the solution to their colossal and historic implosion can be found at the movies in the entertaining new film MONEYBALL. The movie champions those who challenge the conventional wisdom -- the ho-hummers who always say, "But that's how we've always done [...]
