Posts Tagged ‘Laura Dern’
Film Review – Certain Women
Certain Women is a feature film from director Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) and her third collaboration with Michelle Williams. Based on short stories by Maile Meloy and a script by Reichardt, Certain Women follows three women, all living in Montana. Their lives…
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Film Review – 99 Homes
99 Homes deals with the fallout of the home mortgage crisis that resulted in people losing their homes because they could not afford their ballooning payments. Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) could no longer afford to pay his mortgage. His family home that he shared with…
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2015 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
The Academy Awards are here again and unlike most years I am actually ready to move on to the next year. Don’t get me wrong, I will watch and get excited and angry depending on the results but most awards are pretty wrapped up except,…
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Film Review – Wild
Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) is preparing to go on a 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild. We are not told why, but sense that this is something she thinks she needs to do even though she cannot say why. As she starts out, she…
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Film Review – The Fault in Our Stars
The young adult genre of books is varied in its subjects, but if you are strictly going off film adaptations, the majority of them involve dystopian societies, supernatural elements, and star-crossed lovers all with a teenage main character. Frankly, it is getting to be tiring…
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Double Feature Showdown – 3D IMAX Top Gun vs. 3D IMAX Jurassic Park
I’m not a huge fan of 3D, and I am especially not fond of the current trend to retrofit older movies with it. But when I heard that they were releasing both Top Gun and Jurassic Park in 3D IMAX, I completely bought in to…
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Episode 248 – DVD Rundown 4-23-2013
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for April 23rd, 2013. In this episode they discuss Jurassic Park 3D, The Impossible, The Central Park Five and Gangster Squad.
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Film Review – The Master
It’s apparent that director Paul Thomas Anderson is in love with the language of film. Every shot in one of his movies is framed and draped with so much attention to detail, and filled with so much enthusiasm for what is being delivered, that it…
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