Tag: Mark Ruffalo

  • Poor Things: Another wild adventure with Yorgos Lanthimos

    Poor Things: Another wild adventure with Yorgos Lanthimos

    Poor Things is streaming on Hulu now, which means you can check one more Oscar hopeful off your list of things to see. Yorgos Lanthimos directed this one. It is bizarre, bonkers, beautiful, and brilliant. Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a Frankenstein-like character with an infant’s brain in a woman’s body.

  • All the Light We Cannot See: outstanding television

    All the Light We Cannot See: outstanding television

    All the Light We Cannot See has me all excited because it is brilliant – an outstanding mini series. It’s based on the novel by Anthony Doerr. Yes, I know the book is always better. But this series is simply excellent in every way that good television can be excellent. The performances, the cinematography, the…

  • Review: The Adam Project – love the actors? Okay, then.

    Review: The Adam Project – love the actors? Okay, then.

    The Adam Project is the kind of movie a lot of people will watch because they like the actors. That’s the best reason to watch this lightweight time travel tale. It’s easy and full of barbed one-liners, but south of outstanding.

  • Transgender Issues

    Transgender Issues

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  • Review: Begin Again

    Review: Begin Again

    How does Mark Ruffalo do it? Every time I see one of his movies I think, “This is Mark Ruffalo’s best performance ever.” Then I see another of his movies and I have the same feeling all over again. Welcome to Begin Again with Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley in two of their best performances ever. 

  • Review: Spotlight

    Review: Spotlight

    Spotlight tells the story of The Boston Globe and its investigative team (Spotlight) that finally brought the story of child abuse in the Catholic Church national and global attention. There has been so much anger and pain at the Catholic Church over this monstrous world-wide cover up of generations of young people traumatized and scarred…

  • Review: Thanks for Sharing

    Review: Thanks for Sharing

    Thanks for Sharing boasts a great cast in a fair story about people in a 12-step group for sex addiction. The film gives superficial treatment to 4 sex addicts’ story lines. Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad and Alecia Moore (Pink) are the sex addicts; all are in the same support group. Tim Robbins and…

  • Review: Now You See Me

    Review: Now You See Me

    Do you have fun at magic shows? Can you react to a trick with a 6-year-old’s sense of delight? If the answer is yes, you are going to really enjoy this magic show of a movie. Now You See Me is a magic act wrapped up in a heist movie and featuring a Robin Hood…