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A painfully awkward film about selfish humans who keep androids of themselves to do everything they don’t want to do, Robots purports to be a romantic comedy, but it’s just not funny. Every once in a while, you come across a movie that could be cute. You have a gut feeling that it might not…
A fantastic musical film about a bloodthirsty plant that gets its owner to keep feeding it, Little Shop Of Horrors features a great cast and is packed with earworms. When Little Shop Of Horrors was first released on VHS tape, my friends and I were obsessed with it. We planned a performance of our own,…
A brooding period drama about a man who believes his cousin’s wife committed murder, but meets and falls in love with her, My Cousin Rachel feels muted and flat. I have mentioned this before, but not every book should be turned into a film. The mediums are very different, and while you can describe every…
A fictionalized retelling of a famous historical life, Henry VIII and His Six Wives does an excellent job of covering each of Henry’s relationships while giving you a little bit of insight into each wife. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. If you are at all familiar with the Broadway show SIX, the television show…
A modern Cyrano story where a sweet but inarticulate teen asks a quiet nerd to help him write letters to the girl he loves, The Half Of It is a cute YA watch. Whether you’ve read the 1897 play of Cyrano de Bergerac or not, the story is a familiar one. A man is in…
A dystopian sci-fi thriller about a facility in which members live to avoid outside contamination and hope to win the coveted lottery, The Island is a story that gets better the longer you watch. There are some really entertaining movies about a dystopian future. The Hunger Games series, The Matrix series, The Long Walk, Snowpiercer…
A sweet coming-of-age film about a boy and a girl who live next to each other and manage the ins and outs of puppy love as kids, Flipped is both nostalgic and relatable. Rob Reiner has directed some of the best films we have. The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Misery, and a personal nostalgic…
A delightful romantic comedy, About Time, about a man with a close-knit family where the ability to time-travel runs in the male genes, has wonderful hidden depths. Have you ever seen a movie poster so many times that you believed that you’d seen the movie? Like one of those stories that you’ve heard someone else…
A slice-of-life indie about a man who finds a passion in stand-up comedy while going through a divorce, Is This Thing On? is bittersweet and reflective. There have been some excellent indie films that have released over the last 12 months. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Thing With Feathers, and Eleanor The…
A short and silly film about four sisters trying to figure out their paternity after their mother’s death, Despite Everything is bound to leave you speechless. Do you ever watch a movie, and when it’s over, you think, “What did I just watch?” That is the experience I’m having right now. I’m amused, but mostly…
A musical movie about a young cantor who wants a commercial singing career, The Jazz Singer is an uneven film with a fantastic original soundtrack and an early 80s Neil Diamond. My mother loved this movie. When I was a kid, sometime after it was released on VHS, my mom bought a copy of The…
A zany film about a stylish young woman with big party dreams and no life goals, Party Girl is a fun time covered in candy coating with Parker Posey at the helm. I might be biased, but I think that Parker Posey is super cool. She is unlike any other actor, with her little quirks…
