• November 25, 2025
• At Home, Drama

An Oscar-winner for the lovely and introspective Nomadland, director Chloé Zhao is back in her wheelhouse with another visually lovely, emotionally intimate drama. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of...

• April 6, 2025
• Film Festivals

April 6, 2025–The Seattle Jewish Film Festival wrapped up last night with the crow-pleaser Bad Shabbos, starring Kyra Sedgwick as a matriarch (I’m in denial that she has aged...

• April 20, 2023
• At Home, Documentary

A few years ago, I went to see Judy Blume on her book tour for her latest (and she says last) novel for adults, In the Unlikely Event. Town...

• November 25, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Music

SYNOPSIS: “Blinded by the Light” tells the story of Javed (Viveik Kalra) a British teen of Pakistani descent, growing up in the town of Luton, England, in 1987. Amidst...

• May 13, 2019
• At Home, Drama

In my 20s, I was backpacking through Europe, and made a stop to check out Paris’ Père Lachaise Cemetery, burial ground of a great many famous folks. You’d see...

• April 16, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

McCarthy stars as Israel, an acerbic, exceedingly grumpy (to her own detriment) writer with mounting debt and a problem with alcohol, whose career hits the skids after a streak...

• March 8, 2018
• At Home, Drama

How many times have we seen a story of a married middle-aged (white) guy being lured and destroyed by a young woman? Is it because most screenwriters are middle-aged...

• February 28, 2015
• At Home, Drama

For anyone young enough to picture the 1950s as one extended Leave it to Beaver episode, I would respectfully refer you to the film noir classic Sunset Boulevard. It’s...

• February 8, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Mystery

I had heard buzz about The Door in the Floor when it was initially released, especially for Jeff Bridges’ performance (which doesn’t surprise me, as he is one of...

• February 8, 2014
• At Home, Drama

Now that I’ve finished vomiting in a bucket after seeing Quills, let me give you an idea of what it is about. It is Napoleonic times in France (that...

• December 3, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose) is a young graduate student writing her thesis on Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella), an acclaimed novelist in his twilight years. When she visits him in...

• October 16, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Back in the day, as Hollywood is wont to do (over and over), there were two movies about the exact same thing that came out almost at the same...