• September 30, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

I don’t know about you, but I enjoy a good disaster movie. I love to see landmarks explode, tidal waves roar through cities, and the earth swallow cars. Deepwater...

• September 21, 2016
• At Home, Drama

History is remembered by the biggest headlines. For those folks that grew up after the 1960s, that era, where America lost its innocence, tends to be bookended with JFK’s...

• September 20, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Family, Television, Western

I remember an entire Sunday spent waiting for the airing of Look Back to Yesterday. I was six and must have reminded my parents that we’d be watching it...

• September 16, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Director/screenwriter Matt Johnson stars in Operation Avalanche as a variation of himself… if he were a guy named Matt Johnson, who was also a filmmaker, who happened to work...

• September 12, 2016
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Television

James Franco plays, a well meaning English teacher named Jake Epping who feels a little stuck in the mud. His students play with their cells phones during his lectures,...

• September 2, 2016
• At Home, Drama

Alice (Rachel Weisz) has been invited to a friend’s party by a man she met in a corporate cafeteria (Michael Chernus). She told him she needed friends, so under...

• September 2, 2016
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Is this about a Native American racing atop his pinto pony in a Hidalgo-like adventure? No. Not at all. Give the film credit though: Whenever Anthony Hopkins’ character mentions...

• September 2, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Music

I was one of those that grew up associating The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond’s 1980 “Love on the Rocks” hit-spawning (but otherwise stinky) version. I knew nothing of...

• September 2, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Romance

I really wanted to recommend this film, in fact I can wholeheartedly recommend the first half of The Light Between Oceans, which is probably the most stunningly gorgeous half-film...

• August 26, 2016
• At Home, Crime, Drama

Two brothers, Toby and Tanner (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) set out to rob a bank in their small Texas town. It initially seems pretty benign, as they simply...

• August 19, 2016
• Action, At Home, Drama

Now, everyone will compare this film to the multiple-Oscar-winning 1957 epic Ben-Hur starring the majestic Charlton Heston (and his supporting cast of very white teeth). The truth is, this...

• August 16, 2016
• At Home, Crime, Drama

The opening credits of Confirmation offer a quick history lesson. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush was struggling to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court to fill the...