HBO has done it again with this Barry Levinson (Diner)-directed film about Jack Kevorkian, the famed Dr. Death of the 1990’s. This pay-TV channel seems to have found the magic formula for producing terrific movies that the big studios won’t touch; long known for its serious series like The Sopranos, Deadwood, Big [...]
0 comments Thursday 28 Oct 2010 | blogadmin | drama, movie reviews, recommendations
Okay, so I could be hypercritical of Gigantic, but not today. It’s not gigantic, though. It’s a small, quiet, quirky, and somewhat campy indie movie with two wonderful stars. Here’s your “plot”: Paul Dano plays Brian Weathersby, a mattress salesman, and the youngest of three brothers. Zooey Deschanel is Harriet (Happy), daughter of Al Lolly [...]
0 comments Friday 14 Aug 2009 | blogadmin | comedy, movie reviews, romance
Confessions of a Shopaholic features Isla Fisher as a, well, “shopaholic”. Her character, Rebecca Bloomwood, tells you very early in the movie “stores treat me better than boyfriends” (or something to that effect). Through a weird series of events, Rebecca lands a job as a writer for a financial magazine. She’d really prefer to write [...]
1 comment Thursday 25 Jun 2009 | blogadmin | comedy, movie reviews, romance
