Chef
A delightful film about a talented chef (John Favreau), laid off from his job at…
Tough Love
A fascinating documentary about the inner workings of child welfare systems. The focus here is…
Four Letters Apart
An inspiring documentary of how some Danish children are being treated for ADHD without the…
Ida
Set in 1960s Poland, this is a story of nun in training who is sent…
Edge of Tomorrow
What can you say, other than: it’s Tom Cruise suffering from a serious case of…
Empire of Dirt
An impressively acted Canadian film, it tells the tale of a young First Nations woman,…
Aftermath
Terrific and controversial (in Poland) Polish film, inspired by a pogrom during WW II, but…
Alan Partridge
I enjoy the English actor, Steve Coogan, in pretty much anything he does, so perhaps,…
The Raid 2: Berendal
Following up on the very violent original film, our hero cop this time goes deep…
Point and Shoot
This documentary tells of an unlikely young man from Baltimore who travels through northern Africa…
Blue Ruin
A grim but fascinating story of revenge as a quiet man, living on the edge…
We Are the Giant
Another fascinating documentary, this one telling tales of six people fighting several brutal Arab governments…
Under the Skin
I’ll admit that I understood very little of this very odd film which has Scarlett…
Locke
If a movie consisting solely of one (British) man driving (on Britain’s highways) and talking…
Maleficent
Angelina Jolie is well suited to this role of good and bad fairy and keeps…
We Are the Best!
Cute but nothing really new in this story of three young Swedish teenagers, two of…
The Immigrant
Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as man of many parts (some good, some not so good)…
The Grand Seduction
An English Canadian spin on a French Canadian story about a small east coast town…
Neighbors
Perhaps I laughed a half-dozen times during the entire film. I can’t for the life…
The Double
Based on a short story by Dostoyevsky, Jesse Eisenberg plays a shell of a man…
The Great Beauty
This Italian film – set among the lavish lifestyle of Rome’s literary and social elite…
Gloria
An impressively acted film from Chile, it tells the story of an almost 60-year-old divorcee,…