Movie Review: The Vow
The Vow is mostly a wasted premise, turning an interesting idea into a cliché driven nightmare. The story sucks all the life out of the …
Romantic
Movie Review: Anna Karenina
Every generation, Anna Karenina gets remade because of its brilliant dissection of passion vs. society’s rules. People are drawn to Anna’s tragic situation of loving …
Movie Review: Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell is one of our more interesting directors. He takes standard formulas and adds lots of complexity to them to make the story …
Movie Review: The Sessions
Differentiating between lust and love can be a challenge for someone who doesn’t get the opportunity for either. It is that question that drives Mark …
Movie Review: Once
Musicals usually have a ceiling associated with them. By characters breaking out in song, the stories usually have a fantastical element, which serves to limit …
Movie Review: Ruby Sparks
Distributed by the same company that created (500) Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks contains many similarities to the 2009 hit. The leads are indie darlings. …
Movie Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World delivers a fresh spin on an old story. It takes the classic road trip, and couples …
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
Robert Frost wrote “Two Roads Diverged in a narrow wood/ and I took the one less traveled by,” which pretty much describes the routes that …
Movie Review: Before Sunrise
Admittedly, movies involving romance are not at the top of my Netflix queue. As someone who stares at formulas all day, seeing another “brokenhearted woman …