Movies – Full Listing
Frances Ha
FRANCES HA Frances Ha shows the beginnings of Greta Gerwig, future writer and Director of the Oscar-nominated 2017 Lady Bird. This is the second movie she co-wrote with Director – and partner beginning in 2011 – Noah Baumbach. For this movie they wrote “mumblecore,” usually low-budget independent films characterized by naturalistic acting and dialogue and…
Rocketmen
ROCKETMEN A bunch of your slightly more talented friends get together, have a few drinks, and decide to start a Seattle web series Rocketmen – using Kickstarter money. That is the “feel” – and probably what really happened – to get this seven, 11-minute episode web series going (2014-2016), then a movie of the seven…
About Time
ABOUT TIME About Time is about time travel, where the men in this English family can go backward in their own timeline, even better than Google Maps. Used at first to “get the girl” (you know, relive the moment and not say all those stupid things to the girl you just met) but then continues…
- 2013
- Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
Practical Magic
PRACTICAL MAGIC Practical Magic with its amusing witches is completely unbelievable and has a totally outrageous premise. This allows Practical Magic to do whatever they want and they do it amusingly well. You could say Practical Magic is a happy rom-com-ish movie even with the abuse, murder, witches, remurder, ghost, haunting, and possession. Sandra Bullock…
Forever
FOREVER Forever stars Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen (June & Oscar) in a very subtle comedy drama TV series about love after death. The first couple of episodes while they are a living (and a slightly boring couple) are enjoyable, after death it only becomes better, and then they are free to do whatever. Forever…
Leave No Trace
LEAVE NO TRACE A perfect Father, Will (Ben Foster, Hell or High Water, Hostiles), suffering from PTSD, supplies everything necessary for his daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKensie), except a home. They live happily homeless in a Portland, Oregon park (Eagle Fern Park) until raided. Daughter and Father are “captured” by Social Workers and are generously…
- 2018
- Drama
The Lovely Bones
THE LOVELY BONES The Lovely Bones, a supernatural thriller drama, is an early film, but not the earliest film, for Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird, Mary Queen of Scots). This is a two’fer sad special – two movies in one – with a little Shakespearian comedic relief courtesy of Susan Sarandon via an early Othello reference…
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE In Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, four kids in present day high school are sent to detention – a brain, an athlete, a princess and a basket case – (the criminal was left out of the equation, replaced with a coward later in the movie). Comparison is instantly made to…
C.B. Strike
C.B. STRIKE C.B. Strike is an excellent 2017 British TV crime/drama mini-series set in London, starring a one-legged Private Eye, Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) with personal and financial issues, and his new assistant, Robin Ellacott (my favorite – she should be a bigger star but they always told her she had a classic face and…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH You need to view Hedwig and the Angry Inch with and open mind. View this movie when you want to get your transgender punk rock self on. If you accept it – it is a good movie. This 2001 American musical film with a little comedy and a lot of…
Sleepless in Seattle
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Rewatched Sleepless in Seattle on the 25th anniversary since its release in June 1993. True, it is a romantic comedy, a very good one – and everyone knows what happened so forget the summary. But, Sleepless In Seatle contains many scenes, quotes, and a soundtrack that makes “Sleepless in Seattle” a timeless…
Origin Unknown
2036 ORIGIN UNKNOWN 2036 Origin Unknown is a small sci-fi movie that makes a large statement about Artificial Intelligence and the future of the world. This is really a one-women show, starring my favorite sci-fi person, Portland, Oregon borne Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, Longmire, Riddick, Tell, Oculus, Sexy Evil Genius, Girl Flu, Another Life). The…
- 2018
- Science Fiction
Hostiles
HOSTILES Hostiles is a dramatic and sometimes violent road trip movie set in the American West in 1892 when a dying Cheyenne War Chief and his family are released from prison and sent home to their tribal lands. U.S. Cavalry Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), who has spent the last part of his career ridding…
The Wailing
THE WAILING Not the brightest nor the bravest nor the fittest police office in a mountainous village in South Korea investigates murders performed by people covered with rashes and boils in The Wailing a horror/mystery film. Is it a disease, or is it something else, something more horrific? A two and a half hour movie…
Even the Rain
EVEN THE RAIN On Columbus Day 2017, scratch that, on Indigenous People’s Day, I watched the news as Native Americans were getting arrested for a pipeline/sacred grave protest, 28 arrested. In their honor, I watched Even The Rain, a Spanish protest film about the realization of past and current atrocities. This fictional film is about…