WOUNDED BIRD

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

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

Spoiler alert!  If you have not read the third in the Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series, you may want to stop reading now.  I don...

  A week or so ago, I watched the film Philomena . What a lovely, lovely movie. Judi Dench is superb and Steve Coogan is no slacker. He ...

Spoiler alert! While I enjoyed the second book in the Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series, I thought it fell short of the first, Stil...

"Another Year" is a strange movie. Written and directed by the much admired Mike Leigh, the film received a number of glowing re...

In an earlier post , I said that I would probably go with my granddaughter to the the latest film version of The Great Gatsby, even though...

Spoiler warning. Over the last couple of nights, I watched the film "The Tree of Life" on Netflix DVD.  I've enjoyed all t...

The trailer for the film is not yet available, so far as I know, and I'm late taking note of the film's award at the Sundance Film ...