Movies We Watch

A documentary on Cirque du Soleil putting together the Beatles Love performance. It took a long time. It was expensive. The surviving Beatles are much mellower about their music than are the widows of the Beatles we have lost. Looks like it would be an interesting show. But being not near Vegas, not wealthy and [...]

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Yes, we’ve watched this before (previous entry), but had the chance to see it again. And we took it because it is a fun film.

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Ok, I lived within a short subway ride of Broadway and I only saw 2 shows in a decade and I only saw them because a guest wanted to see a Broadway show and they were willing to pay (at TKTS, not full price, who the hell can afford that?) I remember 3 of these [...]

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I am a huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman and have always liked the films written by Charlie Kaufman. So this film should have been a top film for me. Unfortunately, I can’t put it there. It was long, plodding, overly complex and I found myself not really caring what happened. The concept was interesting. [...]

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I often like Adam Sandler. For the most part the films he does are funny enough and have a bit of sweetness going for them. We all know Sandler films that do not run like this, but I am going to ignore them for my own film mind health. This film was formulaic, you knew [...]

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I was a drama geek in high school. We did plays, sometimes musicals, 3 a year. It was no big deal, the budgets were small, no one stood out that much, though some people consistently got the leads. The competition wasn’t cut throat and there was no expectation this would launch anyone to stardom. These [...]

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This film was well acted and did not seem as long as it was, BUT did we really need another good cop, bad cop, loyalty, NYC police movie? Nothing new, not even a new way to tell the story. The regular one family of cops thing. Bad guys, good guys, loyalty over what is right [...]

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Ricky Gervais as the completely misanthropic dentist turned romantic is an odd concept. I never expect Gervais to play a romantic anything. But he pulls it off to a point with subtle humor. It is sort of fun to watch the character grow and learn that how he is living isn’t really working for him [...]

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