Movies We Watch

We lived in Brooklyn when this was on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. We continually saw amazingly great reviews of the play in all the media. Every person that saw it just raved. And then there is the film. This moved slowly, was uninteresting, and was an awful translation of the Broadway Musical [...]

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January (9) The Day After Tomorrow Flight Of The Phoenix Along Came Polly The Chateau The Closer You Get Ocean’s 12 The Yes Men Saved! The Big Bounce February (13) Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous Camp Elektra Closer Requiem For A Dream United States Of Leland Walking Tall [...]

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This film is based on a William Gibson short story by the same name in a collection of shorts titled “Burning Chrome”. imdb.com In the not-too-distant future, two New York businessmen plot to play two multinational rival corporations against each other, with a little help from a shady Italian street woman, to obtain an important [...]

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Film about a sad man who is losing everything. David Schwimmer is actually pretty good in this. imdb.com A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it’s too late.

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Odd film with great scenery. The scenes where they pull up to the house and are surrounded by what appears to be miles of sunflowers is visually breathtaking. imdb.com A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed [...]

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Who else but Malkovich could play this part so coldly? I need to see all the Ripley films imdb.com Tom Ripley persuades a man to commit a murder for a large sum of money. The situation goes out of control, and that man must escape trouble.

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I know this cottage. Luckily I have never been invited to stay in it. Fun film. Needed subtitles sometimes. imdb.com London: The Sixties. Two down-on-their-luck actors (Withnail and Marwood) find solace in drink and other substances. Seeking respite from their uneventful lives they escape up north to Penrith to Withnail’s uncle’s stone cottage. Faced with [...]

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Not a film the Chamber of Commerce for Iceland would use. Sometimes it is a matter of knowing that people don’t actually want your opinion, even if they ask for it. imdb.com Lawrence (Nighy), an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina (Macdonald), an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit [...]

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