She had an intimate relationship with music, like it was a person...she would die for it. In ten or twenty years, my kid siblings may come across Amy, the new documentary that chronicles Amy Winehouse's meteoric rise to fame in the first years of the millennium, and watch it much the way I recently ...
Watch This: Six by Sondheim
I am always watching something. If it's not a film for work it's a series I haven't seen yet. If it's not a new theatrical release, it's a doc I've been meaning to get to. If it's not on Netflix, it's a DVD I snagged from the library. It's always something. I was poking around HBOgo recently (as ...
2014 [in films], part ii
I recently posted the first fifteen films in my top 20 of 2014 - find them here. Below are the final five of that list, the films I both enjoyed above all and found the most critically compelling. I've mentioned I didn't find it a banner year in releases, but I suppose that's not entirely true; ...
Coming Soon: December
The last month of the year sees a lot of movies hitting the big screen in order to qualify for Awards recognition after the new year. Some of them are already winning awards, too. Which is good news, indeed. December 5 Wild - The "memoirs that get adapted to the big screen" genre is alive and well ...
Coming Soon: November
So many movies, so little time. November proves another busy month of high-profile releases, and here's what I'm looking forward to seeing: November 7 Interstellar - Christopher Nolan returns with his Next Big Thing, and buzz about this one is surprisingly mixed. I've heard some people say ...