Movies We Watch

Awesome fight scenes and explosions in this ‘plague destroys society that is walled off from the world’ film. Woman that escapes Scotland (ground zero for this plague) as a child becomes commando fighter that leads a group back in 30 years later to find out how some people survived. Why when a society becomes cut [...]

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This may be the first film in the new category “Sometimes you just CAN NOT make a difference” (a sister category to “You can Make a difference”). Walter does all he can to give people he just met a home and save them from deportation and he is powerless. This film is moving and sad. [...]

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This movie is 35 years old and funnier than most comedies released in the last 10 years. Why did it take me 35 years to see it? I knew most of the lines. I knew the story. I had seen dozens of scenes from it. I loved everyone in the cast. I have no idea [...]

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I watched this film always eager to find out what happened. The assemblage from one death to another was unusually mixed with the story of Sammy Jankis. Told in small vingettes that linked to previous events, with notes, photos, and phone calls driving the story backwards. The story shows the worst of everyone involved. How [...]

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When you have great dialogue and two really great actors, you can’t go wrong and this film proves it. This film could have been depressing and wallowed in its own “oh poor me”, but instead showed the human side of two siblings having to deal with their own crap as well as their dying father [...]

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Few things are more frustrating than being over an hour into a great movie and having a power outage. So this movie was watched in 2 parts. Most on Wednesday and the rest on Thursday. Amazingly, it didn’t interrupt the flow to the point of where I wasn’t right back into it. Watching the relationship [...]

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Sweet film about the wittiest 16 year old pregnant girl ever. You can’t help but root for her. I don’t believe anyone else  could have played this part except Ellen Page. I understand what allthe hype was about. This is our goal movie for the year. We have now watched an average of 1 movie [...]

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Fun, funny, sad, great natural dialogue. The attitude the Julie Delpy has towards her country men is enlightening. In this film, all french men are cads that do nothing more than think about sex. Her American boyfriend is a sarcastic, bitter, whiner of a man. Yet he is far more lovable than any of the [...]

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