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BEAUTIFUL BOY

October 23, 2018 By Leave a Comment

BEAUTIFUL BOY

The devastation of drug addiction is passionately acted and masterfully told in BEAUTIFUL BOY, a film that is savagely tender in mood and execution. Based on the memoir of the same name by Bay Area journalist David Sheff (played by Steve Carrell), and Tweaked, the companion memoir by Sheff’s son, Nic ( played by Timothée… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, drug addiction, father-son, meth amphetamine

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

April 24, 2016 By 1 Comment

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

LOUDER THAN BOMBS begins with a perfect picture of family love. Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) is marveling at his newborn as his wife Amy, (Megan Ketch) looks on beaming. Jonah is beaming, too, and he is aghast that he has forgotten to bring his wife the food she had requested when she discovered that the hospital tray… Read More »

Tagged With: brothers, car accident, depression, father-son relationship, infidelity, maternal death, photojournalist

BRIDGE OF SPIES

October 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

BRIDGE OF SPIES

Clad, metaphorically, in a shining armor of truth, and wielding an equally luminous sword of righteousness, Tom Hanks as attorney James Donovan is the embodiment of American virtue, right down to the meat loaf he has for dinner, the which is not touched until he has said grace with his wife and three kids. There was, no… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, cold war, East Berlin, espionage, plane crash, Soviet Union, spy plane, U2

BIRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

November 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BIRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

THE SHORT VERSION: One of the best films of the year.

Tagged With: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Michael Keaton

WIN WIN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

WIN WIN presents Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), a decent man and an honest lawyer beetling through life with financial worries that he meticulously keeps from his adored family. Keeping it in has given him episodes that aren’t quite heart attacks, but are enough to alarm his best friend, Terry (Bobby Canavale), into calling an ambulance.… Read More »

WIN WIN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

WIN WIN presents Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), a decent man and an honest lawyer beetling through life with financial worries that he meticulously keeps from his adored family. Keeping it in has given him episodes that aren’t quite heart attacks, but are enough to alarm his best friend, Terry (Bobby Canavale), into calling an ambulance.… Read More »

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