"The Liberator" generates some thinking
My movie buddy went to see "Gone Girl" with her book club, so I recruited a professor friend of mine to see "The Liberator" with.
Film review: "Love is Strange"
Put seasoned actors like John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, and Marisa Tomei together in a film, and guaranteed there'll be a certain amount of movie magic.
"Wetlands” movie review: Exploring secretions and inner selves
Was I watching something with themes that applied to a swath of a generation of young people who can't bear their lives and see no hope of effecting change?
A look back on the life of Richard Attenborough
Another side of one of Britain's best known actors, film directors and producers who was true to his socialist principles and who supported so many good and progressive causes.
"Boyhood," in a land of opportunity they don't make it easy
Writer and director Richard Linklater's latest release had an intriguing gestation, filmed in and around Houston over a twelve-year timeframe from 2002 to 2013.
"Life Itself": A Roger Ebert biopic
Having conducted an extraordinarily unpredictable life, reviewing some 6000 films, Ebert lived his own movie.
Remembering Robin Williams: the laughter, compassion, and humanity
Williams, hardly "selfish" or "cowardly," gave back to the people via his career-spanning progressive activism.
For Whom the Whistle Blows: “The Kill Team”
This documentary's real target market are those young impressionable people who have bought into the madness of Washington's endless imperial misadventures.
Actress Lauren Bacall, who protested Hollywood blacklist, dies at 89
"Stardom isn't a career," Bacall once observed, "it's an accident." What a lucky accident it turned out to be.
“What If,” romantic comedy, sells movie tickets
Zoe Kazan is teamed with Daniel Radcliffe in a story that asks the question, "Will the 'Harry Met Sally' formula work again?"
