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Review: Infinitely Polar Bear
First-time director Maya Forbes uses her life story to craft a poignant tale of growing up with a manic depressive, father in Boston. Mark Ruffalo (“Foxcatcher”) delivers an Oscar-quality performance...
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Review: Irrational Man
Dostoyevsky, Kant, Sartre and the standard Woody Allen May-December romance. Reaffirms Allen’s belief that intellect wins the ladies. Do you have a moral curfew? If you could go back in time, would...
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Review: Mistress America
Grade: A- Greta Gerwig is one of the most underrated talents working in movies today. Not only has she given one great performance after another, but she’s also consistently taking on roles that...
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Father & Daughter Film Festival Reviews
by AMANDA & DAVID BRYANT PERKINS….. One Millennial. One Baby Boomer. Two totally different perspectives. Perspectives that cross not only generations – but styles, tastes, passions, interests, and...
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Review: Goodnight, Mommy
by VICTORIA ALEXANDER……If you missed The Babadook and It Follows last year, do not miss Goodnight, Mommy. A terrific, fresh thriller. If you are not a fan of foreign language films, you are missing an...
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SPECIAL REPORT: U.S. – CHINA FILM SUMMIT 2015
Reported by AMANDA & DAVID BRYANT PERKINS Learn of the huge growth that is occurring due to the co-operation between these two film-making giants. See who the upcoming players are in the 21st...
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Film Review: The Boy
Mothers of lifelike dolls, known as “Reborns” will love this creepy, twisty horror movie. I immediately brought the premise of THE BOY, that a wealthy, elderly couple would hire a live-in nanny to care...
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Film Review: GREEN ROOM
Green Room Green Room – ****OUT OF 4 Director-Screenwriter Jeremy Saulnier is an NYU film school graduate whose sophomore feature, “Blue Ruin” premiered at Cannes in the 2013 Directors’ Fortnight and...
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Doc Film Review: The IF Project
Film Poster: The IF Project The IF Project (Kathlyn Horan, 2016) In 2008, a Seattle police officer named Kim Bogucki asked a group of inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women – all...
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Film Review: The Light Between Oceans
Film Poster: The Light Between Oceans The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance, 2016) **1/2 OUT OF 4 STARS Shot by Australian cinematographer Adam Arkapaw (Macbeth), The Light Between Oceans is a...
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Film Review: GOAT
Film Poster: GOAT In Goat, Bucks Misbehave Goat (Andrew Neel, 2016) *** stars Based on Brad Land’s 2004 memoir of the same name, Goat tells a tale of college hazing run amok. We find ourselves at a...
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Film Review: Moonlight
Film Poster: Moonlight Moonlight – **** OUT OF 4 Director-writer Barry Jenkins’ second feature follows a young, gay black man’s coming of age in Miami. Although the film feels autobiographical, it is...
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Film Review: Manchester by the Sea
Film Poster: Manchester by the Sea MANCHESTER BY THE SEA – ***1/2 OUT OF 4 Director-screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan has thus far made just three films-“You Can Count on Me” (2000), “Margaret” (2011) and...
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Film Review: The Salesman
Film Poster: The Salesman Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian writer-director with a knack for profound dramas (“About Elly”, “A Separation”, “The Past”), returns with “The Salesman”, another heartfelt story...
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“Wilson” Flouts Convention and Almost Gets Away with It
Wilson (Craig Johnson, 2017) 2 out of 4 stars Film Poster: Wilson From Craig Johnson, director of the delightfully offbeat, tragicomic The Skeleton Twins, in 2014, comes Wilson, still offbeat and...
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“T2 Trainspotting” Lacks the Quirky Originality of the First Film, Yet Works...
Film poster: “T2 Trainspotting” T2 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 2017) 3 out of 4 stars How does one make a sequel to a 21-year-old cult hit and make it interesting for fans both old and new? Such is the...
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FIRST THURDAYS FILM FESTIVAL
Amanda & David travel the world reporting on film festivals to assist film makers & entertain film lovers. With so many film festivals out there & so many great films that we think people...
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“Their Finest” Delights with Bittersweet Take on War Propaganda
Film poster: Their Finest Their Finest (Lone Scherfig, 2017) 4 out of 4 stars. The worst thing about Their Finest is its generic title, which offers no indication of the magical whimsy within....
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Extraordinary “Graduation” Explores the Wages of Ordinary Sin
Film poster: “Graduation” Graduation (“Bacalaureat“) (Cristian Mungiu, 2016) 4 out of 4 stars. The new film from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) begins with a bang....
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Film Review: “My Cousin Rachel” Mesmerizes and Bores, in Almost Equal Measure
Film poster: “My Cousin Rachel” My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell, 2017) 2½ stars out of 4. As a big fan of writer Daphne du Maurier, I find it odd that I often find gothic screen romances less than...
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