Drama Reviews

Drama

Footloose (2011)

Footloose (2011)

Footloose v2.0 is the remake of a childhood favorite of mine, and many others like me. For those of us who had nothing better to do in the summer...

Jennifer
50/50 (2011)

50/50 (2011)

When you are in your 20s, life should be carefree. You can work at a hip company, where your childhood best friend works in the cubicle next to you....

Linda
Dolphin Tale (2011)

Dolphin Tale (2011)

A lonely boy finds an injured dolphin on the beach. She is horribly tangled and bleeding, caught in a rope that holds a crab pot. She has given up,...

Linda
Contagion (2011)

Contagion (2011)

I have to admit Matt Damon is growing on me. He is one of a passel of quality actors filling up the large cast in Contagion, and in my...

Linda
The Cutting Edge (1992)

The Cutting Edge (1992)

Why is The Cutting Edge still so enjoyable? The two decades since its initial release reveals the cheesy 80’s music (in a movie made in the early 90s), the...

Linda
The Misfits (1961)

The Misfits (1961)

It is interesting to revisit a film at different points of your life. I originally saw The Misfits when I was 16, in the midst of my Marilyn Monroe...

Linda
The Beaver

The Beaver

The Beaver is a tricky story. Part comedy (and yes, some of it *is* squirmingly funny), and part melancholy drama, it walks a thin, sometimes wobbly line between the...

Linda
Incendies (2010)

Incendies (2010)

Based on the play Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies introduces various characters that are destined to collide in a way that would befit a Greek tragedy. In the present...

Linda
Bambi

Bambi

When I finally watched Bambi as an adult, I was struck not only by the beautiful animation, but by the sneakily educational storyline. The film is formatted in a...

Linda
127 Hours (2010)

127 Hours (2010)

The one-man-against-the-odds drama revolves entirely around James Franco’s terrific solo performance as Aron Ralston, the skilled but somewhat reckless rock climber whose self-preservation instincts ultimately saved his life when...

Vickie
Dances With Wolves (1990)

Dances With Wolves (1990)

Dances With Wolves is a modern Hollywood epic at its best. Just like Titanic or Braveheart, the film is bloated and full of the ego of its director (in...

Linda
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

The earliest moments of what I’ll just call HP7 (like the posters) set the level of emotion that manages to carry relentlessly through the whole first half of this...

Linda