IF BEALE STREET COULD TALKMOVIE REVIEW Every Friday, I read the movie reviews in The Washington Post.The articles usually help me find great films and steer away from bad ones, with one notable exception: Adam Sandler’s Punch Drunk Love. They liked it. I loathed it and loath is too nice a word for how I […]
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A QUIET PLACEMOVIE REVIEW I do not like horror movies. They scare me. Until recently, I’ve only watched two in my life: The Haunting of Hill Houseand The Sixth Sense. Here is a terrifying clip from The Haunting of Hill House. Don’t watch it. The scariest scene in The Sixth Sense is when kitchen cabinets
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THE DRESSMAKERMOVIE REVIEW The Dressmaker is a viewing experience you may want to miss. I normally love weird and quirky films, but this Australian movie ventured into the nether regions of weird and quirky, and not in a good way. Kate Winslet plays Tilly who, as a
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THE SHAPE OF WATERMOVIE REVIEW I just saw The Shape of Water. The movie was directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) and the screenplay was co-written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. This film is not for everyone. It was especially not for my movie companion who complained, “This is not realistic.” Set in
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BLUE JAYMOVIE REVIEW This made-for-Netflix indie movie is filmed in black and white, shows only two characters on screen, is slow-ish and has no soundtrack, except for a few tunes. Normally, that would be the kiss of death for me—I’d rather watch car insurance commercials or those pharmaceutical ads where they tell you how great
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MUDBOUNDMOVIE REVIEW I just watched the movie Mudbound. Set in the 1940’s in the Jim Crow south, the story is about two families who live side by side on a Mississippi cotton farm. The McAllans (white) own the failing farm and the Jacksons (black) work on it. A man from each family goes off to
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GIFTEDMOVIE REVIEW Looking for a movie to take your mind off of real life? Gifted may fit the bill. When his sister dies unexpectedly, Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is left to raise his six-month old niece, Mary (McKenna Grace). Turns out, the niece is a math prodigy. Within a day or two of Mary’s arrival
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THE BIG SICKMOVIE REVIEW A few nights ago, I dragged my husband to The Big Sick. He wanted to go to Dunkirk. But it was date night, for goodness’ sake, so I said, “No. Nope. No way.” Not wanting to engage in our own epic battle, Bruce reluctantly agreed to go to my choice. He
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RAGIN’ CAJUN REDNECK GATORSMOVIE REVIEW Recently, I watched a terrible movie on the SyFy network: Ragin’ Cajun Redneck Gators. (Don’t judge me. I was having a low day.) A man dumps toxic moonshine into the local bayou, thereby creating mutant alligators that crave human flesh. These badly rendered, computer-generated reptiles use their tails to hurl lethal
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HIDDEN FIGURESMOVIE REVIEW Hidden Figures is a movie based on a true story about three African-American women who worked for NASA in the early days of the space program. These overlooked and under- recognized women provided essential mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions. Faced with the racism and sexism rampant in
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