Category: Movies

  • Watch This: Trailer for 13th

    Watch This: Trailer for 13th

    Are you one of many people who don’t quite get what “institutionalized racism” is about? Well, Ava DuVernay’s new documentary 13th is going to explain one aspect of it to you. This film is going to be a history lesson and an eye opener for many people. I’m ready to learn something.

  • Watch This: Trailer for 20th Century Women

    Watch This: Trailer for 20th Century Women

    Set for a December 25 release, 20th Century Women stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup in a story set in 1979. Jimmy Carter is on the TV talking about a “crisis of confidence” – he was sure right about that one – and a group of women team up to raise…

  • Watch This: Trailer for Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

    Watch This: Trailer for Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise is a PBS American Masters production. Watch your local listings for the premier in September.

  • Review: Full Out

    Review: Full Out

    It’s pretty much a rule set in concrete around here that I must watch anything with Jennifer Beals. Full Out finally made it to Netflix, and I watched it immediately. The film is the inspiring true story of gymnast Ariana Berlin and her return to gymnastic greatness after a devastating car accident.

  • Review: The Fundamentals of Caring

    Review: The Fundamentals of Caring

    I resisted watching The Fundamentals of Caring for a long time. Male leads, male writer and director. It didn’t seem like what I was looking for. But one night when there was absolutely nothing else to choose, I pushed play on The Fundamentals of Caring.

  • The Realest Real

    The Realest Real

    The Realest Real is a movie by Carrie Brownstein. It’ll take you 6 minutes to watch and make you wonder about the wisdom of everything you say in the future on social media.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Certain Women

    Watch This: Trailer for Certain Women

    Certain Women tells the stories of women in a small Montana town. It stars Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, and Lily Gladstone.

  • Review: Sweet Bean (An)

    Review: Sweet Bean (An)

    Sweet Bean is also titled An (the Japanese name for bean paste) and Sweet Red Bean Paste. No matter what you call this Japanese film, Sweet Bean is a warm, loving film about three people and food.

  • Review: Songs My Brothers Taught Me

    Review: Songs My Brothers Taught Me

    Songs My Brothers Taught Me features a cast of Oglala Lakota people from the Pine Ridge Reservation in a moving story about life on the reservation. It is chiefly about the lives of Johnny Winters (John Reddy) and his younger sister Jashaun (Jashaun St. John).

  • Review: St. Vincent

    Review: St. Vincent

    St. Vincent is one of those feel-good movies where you cry a little at the end but everything works out fine. I love that kind of stuff, so I enjoyed watching this movie get there. Plus, it has a fantastic cast and boasts outstanding performances from all of them.