You, The Living
You, the Living Directed: Roy Andersson Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund Short sketches in the daily lives of the Swedish. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. Poor movie. It has the bad luck that I decided to get violently ill halfway through it. No idea what...
Survivor
Survivor Author: Chuck Palahniuk Tender Branson is the last surviving member of the Creedish cult, but not for long as he has hijacked a plane which he intends to crash after he finishes telling his life story into the flight recorder. The book starts and ends with Tender Branson...
MWG: Always – Feb Movie
Hi Everyone! I am choosing the movie for February – sorry that I am late! The movie will be Always – directed by Steven Spielberg, staring Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus. Hope you enjoy! Netflix Synopsis: Director Steven Spielberg delivers an old-fashioned romantic adventure, as firefighting pilot Richard Dreyfuss...
Portland International Film Festival
I love the Portland International Film Festival. I like it because I have seen some awesome movies at past festivals that have never been released in the U.S. and I can’t find on DVD. I don’t see as many movies as I would like to when I go since...
Cloverfield
A monster is terrorizing New York City and a few people with camcorders record the entire thing. The movie starts out as a classified video document that the U.S. Army has found and keeping it as evidence of what happened. It begins with a going away party for a...
Running with Scissors
Based on the memoir of Augusten Burroughs about how his bipolar mother gave him up for adoption to his shrink, and how he spent his teen years with a weird-ass shrink family. How a young boy could grow up with such a smothering and then abandoning mother, dumped off...
TAR: Yippee!
Amazing Race The Final Push Phil checks teams out at the former pit stop of the Chiang Kai-Shek Plaza in Taipei, Taiwan where they find that they need to fly to their final destination city of Anchorage, Alaska, more than 4000 miles away. After landing, they need to go...
Little Children
A stay-at-home mom and a stay-at-home dad start an affair with one another when they realized they have become trapped by their suburban lives. The little children in the title are really the adults who don’t want to grow up and face reality, even though they are well into...
The Good Shepherd
Fictional account of how the CIA was born through the eyes of a man, showing how it affected his family and friends. I blame Robert De Niro. There were some interesting plot points in the movie, yet the way they were presented and dragged out was so incredibly...
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Directed: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman Based on Stephen Sondheim’s musical, a man seeks bloody revenge after being sent away to prison for a crime he didn’t commit so a rich guy could take his wife and...