Drama Reviews

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The Giver (2014)

The Giver (2014)

It is not writer Lois Lowry’s fault that it took 20 years for her acclaimed YA book The Giver to make it to the big screen. It’s not her...

Linda
My Dad is Scrooge (2014)

My Dad is Scrooge (2014)

Oliver and June are two sweet kids eagerly anticipating the Christmas season. Their mom is diligently working on a Christmas pageant, but their father, EB, has lost the Christmas...

Jennifer
Into the Storm (2014)

Into the Storm (2014)

I count myself lucky to live in the Great Northwest, as far as natural disasters go. People from other parts of the country say with wide eyes, “But what...

Linda
If I Stay

If I Stay

I remember once seeing a local news story about a family of four that was involved in a horrific car crash, where all but one of the victims died...

Linda
Rosewater

Rosewater

Measured, thoughtful and, at times, quite moving, Stewart’s political drama tracks Bahari – an Iranian-Canadian – in the days before his arrest in June 2009, and his subsequent incarceration....

Vickie
Jersey Boys (2014)

Jersey Boys (2014)

Clint Eastwood has directed so many fine films, one after another, that it comes as a surprise that his film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys is...

Linda
Interstellar (2014)

Interstellar (2014)

It is established immediately that in the world of Interstellar, Earth has gone to hell in a hand basket. Evoking the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, we meet an...

Linda
Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal, from the moment he is on screen, is fantastically riveting. I won’t say he is unrecognizable in his role as Lou Bloom, a conscience-free opportunist with a...

Linda
St. Vincent (2014)

St. Vincent (2014)

Among the many tried and true cliches of Hollywood films (from the training montage, to the dog always surviving, to the hero always getting to kiss the girl at...

Linda
Chef (2014)

Chef (2014)

Chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) has lost his mojo. No, let’s just say he is on auto-pilot. When he started out his career, he was hailed as the next...

Linda
The Fault in our Stars

The Fault in our Stars

For anyone who hasn’t yet been caught up in the zeitgeist, TFiOS is based on John Green’s bestselling young-adult novel of the same name, and centers on the relationship...

Vickie
Sabrina (1954)

Sabrina (1954)

Audrey Hepburn, youthful and glowing in the beginning of her film career, plays Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur. Her daddy (the lovable John Williams) works for the very...

Linda