• July 6, 2018
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

We all know someone who has a capacity like no other to charm us into anything, then let us down hard. For Laura Jaconi (Vera Farmiga), this someone is...

• December 21, 2017
• At Home, Crime, Drama

All the Money in the World was barely on the pop-culture radar (a violent kidnapping movie coming out at Christmas? how cheerful!), but the news cycle of the last...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Drama, War

When Zev Guttman (Christopher Plummer) stumbles from his bed in an assisted living facility, calling for his dead wife, Ruth, there is little to suggest that this fragile old...

• August 20, 2015
• At Home, Drama

I loved watching Inside Daisy Clover with my mom when I was little, but the only part that really stuck with me was Daisy (Natalie Wood) sticking her head...

• 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...

• September 9, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Television

Sometimes I feel compelled to review movies not because I think anyone is going to run out and see them, but to prove to myself that they exist. I...

• June 23, 2010
• At Home, Drama

I spent a significant chunk of my senior year of high school reading Anna Karenina cover to cover and then researching the life of Leo Tolstoy. I learned a...

• June 12, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

I saw Dolores Claiborne when it first came out on video, but I think I was too traumatized by the disturbing turn of events to fully appreciate it. For...

• December 28, 2006
• At Home, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

What a fabulously bad movie I just unearthed! The Spiral Staircase is dated, melodramatic, and full of cliches, but boy is it fun to make fun of. Throw in...

• November 28, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

If you want to make your head explode, try answering the hard questions about Somewhere in Time. If an old Jane Seymour gives a young Christopher Reeve a watch...

• November 28, 2006
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

I can’t believe it—I did it again! I found another so-bad-it’s-good Christopher Plummer movie! With The Spiral Staircase I’m two for two! And Eyewitness is full of before-they-were-megafamous faces!...

• November 28, 2006
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

I watched The Silent Partner at the end of a day spent convalescing with a horrible headache and listening to Christopher Plummer read The Nutcracker on tape. By evening...