WOUNDED BIRD

On Saturday evening, I watched John Huston's film "The Dead", the last movie he directed. The film is based on James Joyce...

Generally, I don't watch horror movies, because the stresses of ordinary life are enough. When I was younger and more resilient, I enj...

Last week I watched "Sunset Song", one of the saddest movies I've seen recently. Directed by Terence Davies, the film is set...

This afternoon I happened upon one of the first propaganda movies made after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the film titled Air Force ....

Yesterday, I watched the movie "Mud", which I enjoyed very much.  The indie film is a coming of age story in the style of Twain...

Saturday night, I started to watch Fair Game , the 2010 movie based on Valerie Plame's memoir of the same title that tells the story o...

A couple of weeks ago, I watched Carol , a wonderful, slow-paced film that focuses on relationships and conversations.  I know people who ...

Several nights ago, I watched the film Spotlight , which was riveting and all around excellent.  The movie earned its well-deserved Academy...

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, was pulled from theaters soon after its release in 2005 in only a small number of venues because of ea...

The other night, I watched The Guard  on DVD. Often the movies from Netflix have been on my list for quite a while, and, when I look at th...

Two recent films from Netflix, Indochine (1992) and The Last Metro (1980), both starring Catherine Deneuve, were enjoyable and well wort...

The complete title of the movie is Birdman; The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance .  Right there you have a smile - at least I did.  I watche...

Last week, I watched and enjoyed The Theory of Everything , which I thought was a biopic about Stephen Hawking. About halfway through ...

Anyone out there seen the Swedish film Force Majeure , directed by Ruben Östlund? Did I order the movie from Netflix because of a reco...

Gosford Park, written by Julian Fellowes, is MASH , written by Ring Lardner, Jr, filmed all these years apart, with both movies having ...

Love Is Strange , directed by Ira Sachs, is a wonderfully tender, bittersweet, and gently humorous love story with very fine acting by all...

The Imitation Game was last week's movie. I have the least expensive Netflix subscription, so I receive only one DVD at a time and aver...

The film, directed by Steven Knight, is gripping, harrowing, and claustrophobic. Nearly the entire movie is filmed inside a moving car ...

The other evening, I watched the film Calvary written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, as Fr James...

A couple of weeks ago, I watched the film Catch-22 . Like Mash , another anti-war movie I watched again recently, it was released durin...