• June 24, 2024
• Action, At Home, Comedy

A friend of mine laughed when I called Thelma a slow-motion action movie, but it’s true! The biggest moment of nail-biting tension doesn’t involve a gun (though there is one),...

• October 7, 2021
• At Home, Horror

For personal reasons, The Manor may have been one of those “too soon” movie choices for me to watch on a cold, dark October night. The story of a...

• March 23, 2016
• At Home, Drama

The best and worst thing about Youth is that it’s like a long stay at a posh, idyllic resort in the Swiss Alps. The scenery is beautiful, the days...

• January 3, 2015
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

There aren’t a lot of sweet movies these days, and by “sweet” I don’t mean sentimental or family friendly. I mean nice movies about regular folks. Elsa and Fred...

• June 2, 2014
• At Home, Drama

In every life there comes a point when things stop working. Maybe it’s the way you live or how you’ve always supported yourself. Maybe it’s more fundamental, and your...

• December 26, 2012
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Music

Oh dear. I think I just watched a movie about myself in middle age, and it’s not pretty. I’m going to turn out like Grace Beasley (Kathy Bates), married...

• May 29, 2009
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

Filled with spectacular art direction and ever-clever writing, Up tells the story of elderly balloon vendor Walter Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner), who decides to fulfill a life-long promise...

• November 26, 2006
• At Home, Drama

Maestro Martin (Sven Wollter) falls for his first violinist Barbara (Viveka Seldahl), they begin an affair, and dump their spouses and adult children and run off together to get...