Les Misérables is one of the most popular and longest running musicals of all time. In the DC area alone it has grossed over $53 million dollars in its numerous runs. On Broadway it has earned over $800 million dollars. Based on the Victor Hugo classic (At 1,400 pages it is one of the longest […]
Category: Movie Reviews
Jack Reacher does just enough. Michelle’s Review!
When I was younger, I didn’t have much patience for procedural dramas. Now in my old age, I’ve discovered a love of the genre. I’m a Law and Order junkie. There is something about it that, when executed well can be just as riveting and fun as a good Michael Bay film. Yes, I like […]
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D – WOW! Just WOW!
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away is enthralling, entrancing, mesmerizing (pick any one; or all of the above) experience.
The Guilt Trip: The Mother-Son Road Trip From Hell!
The Guilt Trip is a decent road trip movie featuring Barbra Streisand as Joyce, the Jewish mother taken to the nth degree, and Seth Rogen as Andy, her far too grounded, no-risk-taker of a son.
The Hobbit: A Very Expected Journey of tedious Walking, Singing and Talking Orcs. Michelle’s Review!
It used to be that when a movie became a trilogy (especially a planned one) it meant something. It was a very rare thing. How many years was it between Star Wars and Back to the Future to The Star Wars Prequels? Thanks to the success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, it seems […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – LOTR Lite!
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey melds the slender Tolkien children’s novel and material from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings to create a movie that is not quite as dark as his brilliant LOTR Trilogy, or anywhere near as whimsically delightful as The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again. It comes […]
Hitchcock Is Incredibly Tacky Fun!
Hitchcock is a fabulist take on Hitchcock’s life while making Psycho. It opens with Hitchcock introducing the film in a manner we can recognise from television’s classic Alfred Hitchcock Presents following a murder that will play into the story in a pretty dramatic (and also cheeky) way.
Killing Them Softly too much talking, not enough killing. Michelle’s Review
Not sure what to say about Brad Pitt’s latest effort Killing Them Softly. It is a strange movie to behold. On the one hand it wants to be a serious gangster movie on the other it is hard to say what it wants to accomplish or is trying to do. One can assume it wants […]
Silver Linings Playbook Is an Oddball Charmer!
David O. Russell doesn’t make the usual kind of movies. He mixes genres, twists things in upon themselves and looks at them from angles no one else does. With Silver Linings Playbook, he takes the romantic dramedy and a couple with mental health issues and mixes them until something fresh and original bubbles up.
Life of Pi: The Most Beautiful Film You Will See This Year!
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is a visual marvel that wears its heart on its sleeve – and therein lies the problem for me: it’s so beautiful and so earnest that it occasionally lost its connection with me.
Bad 25 – Spike Lee’s Celebratory Look at MJ’s Album Bad. Michelle’s Review
Spike Lee is many things, a bomb thrower, writer, director and after watching his recent Documentary Bad 25, clearly a big fan of Michael Jackson. Bad 25 is a celebration of the genius of Michael Jackson.