• September 23, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

Perhaps showing what a timeless classic it is, Casablanca has provoked different reactions in me depending on when in my life I saw the film. I first watched it...

• February 16, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Music

If you have never seen Cabaret, your impression may just be that of Liza Minelli’s iconic role as Sally Bowles with her jazz hands and bowler hat, dancing saucily...

• June 2, 2010
• Film Festivals

As we here at Moviepie like to say, a film festival ain’t a film festival until you’ve seen at least one gay neo-Nazi film! But more on that later…...

• June 7, 2008
• Film Festivals

On Friday, I decided to nix the idea of seeing three movies in a row, starting at 4:30 (after yesterday’s sleepy incident). This meant I could sleep in a...

• June 5, 2008
• Film Festivals

I’m sure some of you out-of-town folks read this blog and think to your collective selves: Sheesh, why would a city have a film festival on the cusp of...

• May 29, 2008
• Film Festivals

My Wednesday night o’ SIFF’n featured, hands-down, the weirdest double-feature I’ve ever sat through. In short, I went from seeing truckloads of WWII Polish military officers get shot in...

• May 31, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

Before watching Black Book, the Verhoeven film that I’d watched most recently was Showgirls—and I spent the two hours and eleven minutes that movie lasted wriggling around scandalized. Showgirls...

• November 20, 2005
• At Home, Drama, Family, Music

I would forgo a plot summary for The Sound of Music, but a recent confession from one of my very best friends proves that it’s necessary. She’s never actually...