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LAST CHANCE HARVEY – Reviewed by Will
Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson have appeared together in a film only once before: just two years ago in Stranger Than Fiction, they shared a couple of brief scenes, but the curtain fell before their...
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AN EDUCATION – Reviewed by Joyce
An Education is a really enjoyable movie that is part coming-of-age drama, part love story, part historical commentary, and all enjoyable. The main character, Jenny, is played by Carey Mulligan, who...
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PIRATE RADIO – Reviewed by David
Director Richard Curtis acknowledged in an interview that while someone should definitely make a serious movie about offshore radio broadcasting to the U.K. in 1966, his comedy Pirate Radio, which uses...
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NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS – Reviewed by Robin
I love and respect Emma Thompson, and if you do as well, you will approach the Nanny McPhee franchise in the proper spirit. Emma Thompson produces and stars in the original and the sequel as the...
View ArticleBRAVE – Reviewed by Elizabeth MacInnes G.
When my boyfried Will asked me to write the review for Brave, I was both thrilled and intimidated, but since this movie is very close to my heart (as he knows) and I’m a huge fan of the Video Station,...
View ArticleBEAUTIFUL CREATURES – Reviewed by David
Set Twilight in the South and substitute witches for vampires and werewolves and you get Beautiful Creatures, a silly but somewhat tolerable piece of young-adult fantasy fluff in which we watch, yet...
View ArticleSAVING MR. BANKS – Reviewed by David
Saving Mr. Banks isn’t so much about the making of Mary Poppins as it is a somewhat fictionalized account of how Disney became able to make the 1964 classic in the first place. Disney’s blatant milking...
View ArticleEFFIE GRAY – Reviewed by Bruce
Effie Gray was the mid-19th century child-bride of the art critic and connoisseur John Ruskin. Ruskin was famous for his support for a variety of art and literature, including the Pre-Raphaelite...
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