Directed by Jeffrey Blitz For fans of: Coming of age films, Juno, The Basketball Diaries, Wide Awake PLOT SUMMARY Hal Hefner has a stutter. So obviously he has to join the debate team. With partner Ginny, Hal learns that growing up for him is as hard as talking. Hal is part of one of the [...]

Written and Directed by Tamara Jenkins, this indie film holds an unwavering camera lens up to the last days of an abusive father, now diagnosed with dementia, and how his grown children must cope with his dying and his death. Lenoard Savage (Phillip Bosco) flips from old, smiley, and complacent to virile, boisterous, and crude. [...]

Four British, Muslim terrorists train for a big attack when all goes awry. They each have their own personalities and vices that make their attempts one debacle after another. Full of irreverent wit and sacrilegious overtones, I was not prepared for Four Lions.

Coming home to retrieve love letters written between her parents, Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) finds her eccentric, novelist father, Don Holden (Ed Harris), living in the garage of his home and two strangers (Corbit and Shelly, portrayed by Will Ferrell and Amelia Warner) residing in the house. What should have been a quiet and cold trip

Genre: coming of age comedy Starring: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß and Chulpan Khamatova Directed by: Wolfgang Becker For fans of: pre- and post-communist Berlin, Yann Tiersen (music from Amelie), all those other hilarious German comedies ONE MINUTE SUMMARY Alex’s mother loves Communism. Too bad it’s 1989 when she falls into a coma, because when she [...]

Young Frankenstein is a follow-up parody of James Whale’s 1931 movie Frankenstein. The story begins with Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson obviously very disgusted with his grandfather’s work. Moving from his work as a doctor in the U.S., the younger Frankenstein heads back to his grandfather’s estate in Transylvania located in Europe. Completing his trip across the ocean by train is an example of how this goofy comedy sacrifices logical order for comedic purposes. This new Frankenstein, through a series of events, manages to group up with a new generation of the original Frankenstein’s associates.

Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.

This directorial debut by character actor Liev Schreiber, about a young Jewish man who travels to Ukraine to search out the woman who helped his family escape to America.  Framed by beautiful cinematography and fun music, this black comedy/road trip film is entertaining and thought provoking. WHY YOU’LL LIKE IT Understand this is a “Black [...]

From the brilliant mind that brought us Alien: Resurrection…okay, I can’t even keep going with that.  THAT movie was a train wreck.  In Amelie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns to his roots, moving past his try at a tired sci-fi franchise, and back to work more like Delicatessen. But seriously, Alien: Resurrection…don’t watch it.  Even the premise, [...]

This is how you do a retelling/reboot of a classic story. Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, and Maggie Smith deliver and give this movie just enough edge that it is still fun for children, but also appealing to adults.  Spielberg does not disappoint, with a flowing story, great visuals, and natural dialog (other than the “crowing”…what [...]