Cameron Crowe has made more than a few films in my personal pantheon (including my tied-for-favorite-film-ever-made Almost Famous*). So I guess he gets to slack and make a pleasant film [...]
This had everything I like in a Wes Anderson movie, but I can’t say I liked it. Maybe I was tired, but the plot didn’t grab me and I kept closing my eyes for brief periods. [...]
I’m giving another shout-out to this quiet little film, which I liked just as much the second time around as I did the first. It’s not life-changing, but it’s fun to watch [...]
I loved watching these two actresses navigate their adult relationship, one of them a sister who had fallen from her upper-class life, the other a working-class, good-natured woman. Cate [...]
What with the 50s-era setting, the marginalized, incredibly smart women and the intriguing mystery I was all in. This is a great period piece and a very astute commentary about why [...]
Let’s face it, sometimes the glee at seeing something very anticipated means you miss stuff the first time around. So seeing this movie again was a reward for doing an odious task and [...]
I found this movie to be more successful than the book, mostly due to the fact it was more fun to watch the Dauntless faction run through the streets and jump on and off trains than it was to [...]
I was surprised to find this movie incredibly underwhelming, both in plot and visually. Several times I found my eyes closing because it was interesting to listen to, though perhaps I just [...]