Category: Movies

  • Watch This: 3 Upcoming Films Starring Women

    Watch This: 3 Upcoming Films Starring Women

    Because I took a week off, I got a bit behind mentioning upcoming films that feature women in the leading role. To compensate, I combined them into this post featuring trailers for She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, Miss Meadows, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry is a provocative look…

  • Review: Big Driver

    Review: Big Driver

    From a story by Stephen King, Big Driver is the story of a novelist bent on revenge after falling victim to a brutal crime. It is a made for Lifetime TV film. It stars Maria Bello, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett, Ann Dowd and Will Harris. There are spoilers ahead.

  • Wisdom Sharing: A Week with the Goddess Spirit

    Wisdom Sharing: A Week with the Goddess Spirit

    I spent last week at a conference in Ghost Ranch, NM. The conference, called Wisdom Sharing, featured Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem and Dr. Chung Hyun Kyung. The marvelous moderator, shown on the left above, was Dr. Melanie Harris. The location is stunning in its beauty and spirit. The women who were the star attractions were…

  • Watch This: Inside Out

    Watch This: Inside Out

    Watch a few seconds of trailer for Inside Out coming from Pixar next year. You have to wade past some bragging first. Inside Out is Pixar’s second film with a female protagonist. Maybe they learned something from Brave after all. A few of the voices involved in Inside Out include Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Phyllis…

  • Watch This: Clip from Still Alice

    Watch This: Clip from Still Alice

    Still Alice stars Julianne Moore as Dr. Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words because of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The film is based on Lisa Genova’s 2007 bestselling novel of the same name. Still Alice will have a limited release in December, which means Julianne Moore will be in the running…

  • Watch This: Big Eyes

    Watch This: Big Eyes

    Big Eyes is a biopic directed by Tim Burton. It’s about Margaret Keene (Amy Adams) an artist who painted big eyed children famous in the 1950s and 60s. Her husband Walter (Christoph Waltz) took credit for her work. This plot is so 1950s and 1960s! I speak from experience when I tell you that the…

  • Review: This is Where I Leave You

    Review: This is Where I Leave You

    This is Where I Leave You is so rich and messy and complicated, I won’t even try to give you the details of the story. You get the basic story watching the trailer, which is that a family comes together to sit shiva for 7 days because of the death of the father.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Serena

    Watch This: Trailer for Serena

    The Jennifer Lawrence film Serena, which also stars Bradley Cooper, has an October release date in the UK. A US release date has not been announced. The filming was finished in 2012, so the release announcements are both overdue and highly anticipated. These two actors were such a success together in Silver Linings Playbook, it’s…

  • Gimmie Some of That Ol’ Time Music

    Gimmie Some of That Ol’ Time Music

    Two biopics about two great but very different singers from the old days are in the works and I cannot wait to see them both. It’s early yet there’s no news on release times. Bessie Smith The first is a biopic for HBO about Bessie Smith. I’m seeing the name Blue Goose Hollow for this…

  • Review: Redwood Highway

    Review: Redwood Highway

    Redwood Highway is an indie film starring Shirley Knight as an intrepid grandmother who walks 60+ miles along the Redwood Highway to get from her retirement home to her granddaughter’s wedding on the Oregon coast. Mild spoilers ahead. I suppose I didn’t really need to point out that this 2014 film was an indie production.…