Category: Movies

  • Review: Trumbo

    Review: Trumbo

    Trumbo is a fact-based story about Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter who was blacklisted during the Communist scare of the 1940s and 50s. Bryan Cranston is brilliant as the chain-smoking, hard-drinking writer who lead other Hollywood writers in a quiet but effective revolt against blacklisting. Trumbo served time in prison for his liberal beliefs, as did…

  • Reprint: A Good Year for Elder Actors

    Reprint: A Good Year for Elder Actors

    [This post originally appeared at Time Goes By, written by Ronni Bennett. Thanks to Ronni for allowing me to reprint it here.] Not infrequently, I grumble out loud around here about how few roles, especially major roles, there are in film for elder actors. Our generation doesn’t get much representation on what in our youth…

  • Review: Interstellar

    Review: Interstellar

    Interstellar is a space adventure about time, space and the power of love to cross dimensions. The main character, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is a pilot who sets off on a mission he believes will save earth and his two children. Mild spoilers ahead. The film starts on a dying earth subject to massive dust storms.…

  • Review: Brooklyn

    Review: Brooklyn

    Brooklyn stars Saoirse Ronan in a visually lush story about the life of an Irish immigrant in the 1950s. Ronan played Eilis, a young woman who goes to Brooklyn in search of a better life. She arrives there with a job and a place to stay. In that sense her immigrant story is easier than…

  • The Old Ain’t Dead Top 10 of 2015

    The Old Ain’t Dead Top 10 of 2015

    Old Ain’t Dead just me, watching whatever looks good. To me. I don’t watch everything. I don’t have a “best of 2015” list because I don’t have a clue as to what most of 2015 had to offer, much less what the best of all that would be. Yet here we are, at the end…

  • Watch This: Trailer for Eye in the Sky

    Watch This: Trailer for Eye in the Sky

    Except for the star Helen Mirren, Eye in the Sky isn’t my usual movie type to promote. This military thriller explores some important current moral issues, however, and that makes it interesting to me. Eye in the Sky deals with drone warfare. The US uses drones to kill people almost every day. It isn’t something…

  • Watch This: Sisters Featurettes, Trailers and First Looks

    Watch This: Sisters Featurettes, Trailers and First Looks

    Sisters is coming! December 18! Tina Fey. Amy Poehler. Maya Rudolph. Run, don’t walk to your nearest multiplex to watch this film! You want more funny people? Those three aren’t enough? Cripes. Okay, here they are: John Cena, John Leguizamo, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin, Kate McKinnon, Madison Davenport, Adrian Martinez, Dianne Wiest, Heather Matarazzo and…

  • Watch This: Trailer for Imba Means Sing

    Watch This: Trailer for Imba Means Sing

    Imba Means Sing is a documentary about one boy, Moses, in the African Children’s Choir. Here’s the story.

  • 5 Female Directors Who Should be Better Known

    These five women directors have amassed 64 directing credits between them. Some are foreign and/or women of color. All are talented and should have names as easily recognized as those of male directors. I picked these 5 women almost randomly from the many sources listing talented and available women with directing experience who seem to…

  • Barbra Streisand Set to Direct Catherine the Great

    Barbra Streisand Set to Direct Catherine the Great

    I’ve been angry about Barbra Streisand not getting a directing Oscar since 1984 when she was snubbed as the director of Yentl. Since then she directed The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and a couple of TV specials.