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.”
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47 Ronin
Not as entertaining as last year’s raucous The Man With the Iron Fist, but my 15-year old grandson really liked the film. Enough said.
Inside Llewyn Davis
There isn’t much to find inside, or outside, Llewyn Davis. At least he likes cats.
American Hustle
Everyone in America is on the make. Lord, some U.S. Attorneys are in the news more than the Kardashian sisters.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
If there is an Oscar for a film championing human degradation, this movie wins in a runaway.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Remember the song about the kindly “Puff, the magic dragon”? (Peter Paul and Mary (1963)). Smaug certainly doesn’t.
Out of the Furnace
Rating: I am somewhat ashamed that I liked this incredibly morbid film. I wished my psychiatrist hadn’t moved to New Mexico.
In Memory of Peter O’Toole
Here’s to you, good sir, gone but not forgotten, an old man forever young.
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
