Movie Review: Eat Pray Love
“Ruin is a gift; it is the road to transformation… and we must be prepared for it,” muses Liz Gilbert, in the warm and touching Eat Pray Love, in which Oscar-winner Julia Roberts fills Gilbert’s shoes...
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Blu-ray Review: Trust
Now out on Blu-ray from Millennium Entertainment is Trust, or trust_, as the cover says. It is the story of 14-year old Annie (Liana Liberato, The Last Sin Easter) who befriends her dream guy (Chris...
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Movie Review: The Help
I’m pretty sure I first peeped the trailer for The Help when I went to see Tyler Perry’s for colored girls and decided at Viola Davis that I was going to see it. (She is in my pantheon of diva...
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If nothing else, The Help conveys a compelling sense of what it means to be fated by the colour of one’s skin. At its core the comedy-drama is a piercing and haunting look at race, class and social...
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Movie Review: Yelling to the Sky
It is exquisitely ironic – and fitting - that I ended up attending a screening of Victoria Mahoney’s directorial debut Yelling to the Sky, co-sponsored by ImageNation Cinema Foundation and the Film...
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Blu-ray Review: The Help
The 2011 film The Help is based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett. The story follows an aspiring writer, “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone), who is fresh out of college. Set in 1963 in...
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Oscar Politics and Predictions
As award season settles upon us, both the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes have released their list of nominees, and while there are no guarantees that those nominated will also receive...
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Blu-ray Review: Won’t Back Down
Every person who is concerned about children and education in America should see the movie Won’t Back Down Based on a true story, the movie portrays the struggle of two mothers who desperately want a...
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Movie Review: Beautiful Creatures (2013)
They always say, “the book is better than the movie,” right? Well if it’s any consolation to Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures, it must be one hell of a book. Not to say the movie is...
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Movie Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ – DC Finally Outshines Marvel
In a world where it seems the so-called film critics love everything Marvel and despise all things DC, there is a dawn of cinematic justice (okay, couldn’t resist) – with director/writer David Ayer’s...
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