Bound by Reese Witherspoon’s steely performance and directed with flair by Mira Nair, this was an intensly enjoyable film. Partially because I was waiting for the female character to get [...]
When I moved to Kenton, Videorama took up 4/5 of this building, and the gym (also owned by the same people) was 1/5 of the building. At some point, the two reversed themselves. And now, my last [...]
Apparently Hoopla, Multnomah County Library’s streaming service, has a lot of Haley Mills movies available, so I watched this film, which I had not seen since I was a tween.* I discovered [...]
A nicely done movie that hits all the points: acting, story, character development, costuming. Everything clicked along just fine and then the movie was over. There was nothing to dislike, but [...]
“Hey what ever happened to Jay Mohr?” I thought as I grabbed this movie from the library.* I found it to be terribly uneven** and shoddily acted. I was going to chalk this up to [...]
To be fair, I really didn’t like either of the characters in the book this movie was adapted from, so I wasn’t expecting much from this movie. It’s very pretty and it deals [...]
One of those movies I’m guaranteed to like, what with being very interested in identity formation and young people going out into the world on their own. This is a gorgous tale of V-E Day [...]