Reviews

The real story in Heart of the Sea is not about killing and cooking whales, but just how bad it was for the crew when that all went wrong and in the dreadful story of how 8 of the 20 crew members survived. ...

Hints and small stories about abusive priests had surfaced for many decades, but had been treated as isolated events to be dealt with internally by the church, which made a practice of transferring the priests to different cities and parishes, covering the story in layers of church hierarchy and doi... ...

Our latest outing was to see Trumbo, an excellently witty film about the eccentric writer Dalton Trumbo, a prolific movie writer who was driven out of Hollywood and blacklisted during the McCarthy era for communist associations. ...

This story seems to have its parallels in the rise of the Empire and the end of the Roman Republic, but I think were hoping that it will go the other way in this movie ...

This movie is completely unlike anything else showing during the holiday movie season. ...

Its about this time in the story, when Bond usually meets up with the Bond Girl, in this case, Madelaine Swann (Lea Seydoux). ...

The new movie, Steve Jobs, isnt really a conventional biopic narrative at all, but several capsule views of Jobs, mostly taking place in the moments leading up to three of those epic, staged product rollouts, in this case, the original Macintosh, the Next computer (during Jobss exile from Apple) an... ...

One of the great skills of Spielberg as a director is his ability to have a movie that calmly tells a story, in a way thats easy to understand and that brings things down to a personal level. ...

The movie version of the story was filmed around Point Reyes and its terrific lighthouse, a dark and stormy place that lends itself to a spooky story. ...

It is a visually excellent movie and since its those outer space visuals that make the story work, that spells success in my book. ...