We review Independent films and unusual or old films that you may not have heard of. If you are interested in knowing about some excellent films other than the standard Hollywood movie, click on one of the reviews below
- Drinking Buddies – Can a man really be “just friends” with a beautiful woman. Four Stars ****
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor – the life of Mister Rogers – Five Stars *****
- On Chesil Beach – love before the sexual revolution – Five Stars*****
- Meeks Cutoff – People either love or hate this film – Four Stars ****
- An Eye For Beauty – A Quebec Love Story – Four Stars ****
- Chuck – The Bayonne Bleeder or the real Rocky Balboa
- Loving Vincent – The Mystery of Vincent van Gogh’s death.
- Lady Bird – The best independent film of the year.
- The Last Supper – Liberals Kill Right-Wing Wackos
- Rosewater – a Daily Show joke gets an Iranian jailed as a spy
- Becoming Carey Grant – the sad secrets of a movie star
- The Beguiled – Civil War Sex but no slaves
- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night – a beautiful Iranian vampire on a skateboard
- Get Out – A Horror Movie/Comedy/Racial Commentary
- Life Itself – Film Critic Robert Ebert’s fascinating life and final days.
- Hoop Dreams – a film showing the evil side of “March Madness”
- “Primer – a terrific indie movie made for $7,000
- I Am Your Father – the man inside the Darth Vader Helmet
- Lovelace – The sad story behind the star of Deep Throat
- 20th Century Women – quirky comedy with superb acting
- Fences – a good play but a mediocre movie
- Young Ones – Jake Paltrow’s powerful Sci-Fi Film
- 6 Reasons Channel Awesome Is Great
- Jackie – the best film ever made about Jackie Kennedy
- St. Vincent – A moving film about unexpected heroes
- The Gift – a superb thriller with unexpected plot twists
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – an unfocused mess of a movie
- Atari – Game Over – the myth & mystery of the E.T. game
- Arrival – audiences love it or hate it
- Hush – a new horror movie in the classic style
- Tamara Drewe – a perfect comedy that takes you Far From The Madding Crowd
- Camp X-Ray – an enthralling psychological drama
- Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Jane Austen would have loved it.
- Children of Heaven – a loving look at ordinary Iranians
- Election – The 1999 comedy that is better than our current election mess.
- Machine Gun Preacher – true story or self serving propaganda?
- Carol – a film of forbidden love in 1952
- Steve Jobs – Tech Genius or Arrogant Poser?
- The Forest – a horror movie where the strangest parts are true
- Gringo: The Dangerous Life Of John McAfee
- All Things Must Pass – the rise & fall of Tower Records
- Melancholia
- Steve McQueen – The Man & Le Mans
- Genghis Episode of High Maintenance
- Meet The Hitlers
- Wrecked
- The Killing Joke has Batman as a sexual predator
- Begin Again
- Animals
- The Shallows
- Our Kind Of Traitor
- Where The Truth Lies
- The Imitation Game
- Neon Demon
- Reign Over Me
- Tucker and Dale vs Evil
- Good Kill
- The Seventh Seal
- Blue Velvet
- I Origins
- Greetings From Fukushima (Grub Aus Fukushima)
- The Witch
- Alicia von Rittberg in The Naked Swim
- The Station Agent
- In Bruges
- Another Earth
- Hunger
- Lost River
- Cache
- Dancer In The Dark
- Dogville
- Barbara
- Under The Skin
- How I Live Now
- A Separation
- Escape From Tomorrow
- Hide & Seek
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Night Moves
- Wish I Was Here
- Every Secret Thing
- All Is Lost
