Love and Other Drugs
DVD Review Romantic films that depend on a fatal illness are too obvious. The goal of these films seems to be only to make the audience cry. There have been many movies like this, such as Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere who falls in love with the dying young Winona Ryder. Another love/dying story from 1970, the hugely popular book and More...
Detachment
DVD REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin For those people who believe that all public high schools in the US are excellent, here’s a movie that will change your mind. Oscar-winner Adrien Brody stars as a teacher in More...
Celeste & Jesse Forever
FILM REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin Actors often complain that there aren’t enough good movies being written. If you want to be a working actor or actress in Hollywood, you must sometimes accept roles in mediocre More...
The Angels’ Share
FILM REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin British film director Ken Loach has made nearly 50 films in his career, yet his name is not familiar to most people. His lack of fame, however, is not due to a lack of talent. Rather, More...
Hitchcock
FILM REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin Throughout his career of 125 films, Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins has played every imaginable character from the psycho-killer Hannibal Lecter to American President Richard Nixon. More...
Beasts of the Southern Wild
FILM REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin Beasts of the Southern Wild is not an easy movie to watch or understand, but it’s easy to enjoy. Thanks to its unique narrative structure, organized around the internal thoughts More...
Argo
OSCAR WINNER By B. Michael Rubin If true stories about undercover spies in the CIA and American foreign policy mistakes are of interest, you’re going to enjoy the film, Argo. Clearly, Hollywood loved More...
Lincoln
FILM REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin Steven Spielberg has directed almost every type of film — from science fiction to World War II — and won three Oscars during the process. Now he’s taken on the American More...
State of Play
DVD REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin If beautiful actresses standing around doing nothing are your idea of a good film, then you won’t like State of Play. There are few action movies that require audiences to More...
The Impossible
FILM REVIEW By B. Michael Rubin Australian beauty Naomi Watts does the impossible in her new film, The Impossible, turning a tragedy into a triumph. The tragedy took place on December 26, 2004. It was the third More...
