Category Archive: Biography

The Invisible Woman

What if the cost of being madly in love forced you to hide in a public closet as if you didn’t exist?

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

How unfortunate that Mr. Mandela’s long walk to freedom seemed uncomfortably long when sitting in the theater.

Saving Mr. Banks

Emma Thompson shines as brightly here as Kate Blanchett did in Blue Jasmine. The only difference was that Walt Disney found a key to her hard heart.

The Wolf of Wall Street

This film combines the DNA of Bernie Madoff, Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione. Janis Joplin had it right, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”

Kill Your Darlings

Though the film contains some very good performances, my overall reaction was captured long ago by the famous words of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954), and I paraphrase,  “It coulda been… Continue reading

Dallas Buyers Club

Rating: If you privately think that Indiana needs a Constitutional ban on gay   marriage, go see Jared Leto’s performance as Rayon, a transvestite that heterosexual men will love.

12 Years a Slave

Rating: Before praising American exceptionalism, shouldn’t we remember a history that combined liberty with slavery?

The Fifth Estate

Rating: Director Bill Condon has given us a film better suited for a political seminar than the big screen. Just what are the consequences of Americans spying on themselves?

Captain Phillips

Rating: Whatever your feelings are about this film, let me warn you if you are prone to sea sickness. If so, I’d save your popcorn bag after you finish it.

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