Howard Hawks’ Sergeant York is exactly the kind of movie that used to get made and doesn’t anymore. Gary Cooper’s Oscar-winning performance makes this one worth every minute. Continue reading Sergeant York Review (1941) (Throwback Thursday #10)
Tubi is free, loaded with hidden gems, and beats paying Netflix prices every month. Here are three films worth your time on Tubi this week. Continue reading Tubi Tuesday #2: Suburban Commando, Sweet Land, and Underworld
The Indian in the Cupboard had one of the best premises of any 90s kids movie. Toys coming to life as real people with real histories. It just never had the nerve to follow through on what it set up. Continue reading The Indian in the Cupboard Review (1995) (Throwback Thursday #6)
Midway got written off by critics in 2019 and that was mostly unfair. Roland Emmerich’s Pacific War epic is flawed but worth your time, especially around this Memorial Day weekend and the lead up to it. Continue reading Midway Review (2019)
Blake Edwards directs Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in one of the most iconic performances in cinema history. Charming, beautiful, and a little melancholy in all the right ways. Continue reading Breakfast at Tiffany’s Review (1961)
William Wyler directs Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine in one of the darker films either actress ever made. A child’s malicious lie destroys two women’s lives, and the ending doesn’t pull its punch. Continue reading The Children’s Hour Review (1961)
Audrey Hepburn had a career that spanned five decades and remains one of the most timeless filmographies in Hollywood history. From Roman Holiday to Wait Until Dark, here are her five best films — plus honorable mentions and a few misses. Continue reading Top 5 Audrey Hepburn Movies
Deep Impact came out the same summer as Armageddon and has been unfairly compared to it ever since. It is the better film. Robert Duvall is outstanding, Tea Leoni earns her emotional payoff, and it treats the audience like adults. Continue reading Deep Impact Review (1998)
Here on Earth is everything A Walk to Remember does right, done wrong. Two unlikable leads, a sympathetic boyfriend treated like an obstacle, and an emotional payoff the film never earns. Leelee Sobieski deserved better material than this. Continue reading Here on Earth Review (2000)
The Elder Son is a light comedy drama that asks very little of you and delivers a pleasant hour and a half in return. Great performances from Shane West, Leelee Sobieski, and a great Rade Serbedzija make it worth your time. Continue reading The Elder Son Review
Lars and the Real Girl is not what you think it is. It is sincere, warm, and quietly beautiful, carried by a Ryan Gosling performance that never winks at the audience once. One of the most underrated films of the 2000s. Continue reading Lars and the Real Girl Review (2007)
Richard Dreyfuss delivers the best performance of his career in a film that spans thirty years of one man’s life and earns every emotion it asks you to feel. The ending alone is worth the price of admission. Continue reading Mr. Holland’s Opus Review (1995)
Draft Day is a genuinely interesting behind the scenes look at how the NFL operates on the biggest day of the calendar. Great cast, compelling premise, but the writers didn’t trust their own story enough to leave well enough alone. Continue reading Draft Day Review (2014)
The 1999 CBS miniseries had no business being this good. Leelee Sobieski was just sixteen years old and already delivering one of the finest portrayals of Joan of Arc ever committed to screen. This one holds up. Continue reading Joan of Arc Review (1999)
Christine Lahti’s My First Mister is one of the most overlooked films of 2001. Sobieski and Brooks share an unlikely chemistry that carries this quiet gem almost all the way home — almost being the operative word. Continue reading My First Mister Review (2001)
Leelee Sobieski had one of the most underrated filmographies of her generation. From Joan of Arc to My First Mister, here are the five best films she starred or co-starred in — plus a few that didn’t make the cut. Continue reading The Ultimate Leelee Sobieski Rewatch Hub — Her Best Starring Roles Ranked
Jersey Boys (2014) Here is a musical for old farts. And I’ll go ahead and admit right now, even though I’m only 28, I’ve kind of always been an old fart at heart. When it comes to music that old farts like, it doesn’t get much older or fartier than Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Along with my appreciation for timeless music, I’m also … Continue reading Jersey Boys Review (2014)
The premise here is interesting, the talent is extraordinary, the action and atmosphere is fine, but the end result is one of the most befuddling messes I can long remember. The premise is this; 20 years after the Bosnian war, a retired US soldier now living out in the Appalachian countryside finds a strange hitch-hiker with a secret past. Turns out said hitch-hiker was … Continue reading Killing Season (2013) Review
Almost Famous is a movie I not only love, but was important to me in my formative years, and my life in general. It tells the story of William Miller (Patrick Fugit), a 15 year old kid on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine. He has to cover an up and coming rock band during what critic Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) calls the dying days … Continue reading Almost Famous Review
In the grand scheme of music history Richie Valens, or Valenzuela (Lou Diamond Phillips) was a minor figure in music history, and his biggest claim to fame is that he died in the same plane crash that took the life of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, but his story is such a great little slice of the American dream that it makes for … Continue reading La Bamba (1987) Review
