• September 23, 2003
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Sugar Sweet is not as saucy as the movie summary suggests. In fact, it is a cute comedy and love story, purportedly the first film from Japan by a...

• July 10, 2003
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Maybe the filmmakers have to build up to making a laugh out loud feature, but I have to say that several of the shorts on this DVD collection of...

• October 25, 2002
• At Home, Drama, Romance, Television

Tipping the Velvet is a three-hour television adaptation of the surprisingly successful first novel by Sarah Waters (read Moviepie’s exclusive interview with Sarah Waters about the series). Surprising in...

• September 29, 2002
• At Home, Drama, Horror, Mystery

As in any film involving the remote wilderness and frightening backwoods characters, Guardian begins as a carefree trip of independence (read: topless canoeing) and builds towards a climax of...

• November 30, 2001
• At Home, Drama, Romance

This film came very close to a recommendation from me. I can’t quite put my finger on what was missing from Julie Johnson, because I actually did like the...

• October 19, 2000
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

What an odd little film! This French-Canadian film owes a lot to classic French director Eric Rohmer: As in, boy-oh-boy there is a LOT of talking! But the filmmakers...

• September 18, 2000
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

Berlin, 1943: A headstrong, sassy young Jewish woman, Felice (Maria Schrader), is working for the underground resistance movement while boldly earning a living working for a Nazi newspaper. Through...