Finding the Humor in Every Movie
Synopsis: The Peanuts gang share a Friendsgiving… Snoopy & friends join the 1620 Mayflower voyagers on their trip to the new world. The 1973 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving finds poor Charlie … Continue Reading A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving…The Mayflower Voyagers
Synopsis: New teacher helps Inuit high schoolers in Nunavut, Canada form a lacrosse team. The Grizzlies def sounds like a movie I would watch, whether it was a documentary (probably … Continue Reading The Grizzlies
Synopsis: Refugees escape war only to land in a haunted house. His House is a movie about a terrifying house renovation. Or at least that’s what I told myself. This … Continue Reading His House
Synopsis: Borat, a Kazakh journalist wants to deliver a present to the American Vice President. (Streaming on Amazon Prime.) British chameleon of satire, Sacha Baron Cohen returns to the United … Continue Reading Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Synopsis: A newlywed woman becomes obsessed with her husband’s late wife. As long as a woman is going to go mad, she may as well fall apart at a palatial … Continue Reading Rebecca
Synopsis: Seven men are on trial, accused of conspiracy and inciting rioting outside of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Aaron Sorkin takes on the 1960’s in The Trial of the … Continue Reading The Trial of the Chicago 7
Synopsis: Naturalist David Attenborough’s witness statement based on decades of observation and study: an alarming loss of the Earth’s wildlife & wild spaces. He outlines how to help stop the … Continue Reading David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
Synopsis: Enola Holmes, teenaged sister of Sherlock Holmes investigates her mother’s sudden disappearance. Reconstructions of Sherlock Holmes have been a mainstay of cinema for nearly a century. It wasn’t long … Continue Reading Enola Holmes
Synopsis: Lovers and martial artists fulfill their destinies in long-ago China. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an Ang Lee masterpiece that explores love, honor and freedom through martial arts. A … Continue Reading Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Synopsis: Portrait of future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg early on in her legal career. On the Basis of Sex tells the true story of real life legal … Continue Reading On the Basis of Sex
Synopsis: A year in the life of an octopus and the man who follows her. Consider two life forms: one from the sea and one from the land. The water … Continue Reading My Octopus Teacher
Synopsis: Teen struggles with homelessness while trying to get a performing arts scholarship for singing. Time to count your blessings, everyone. You may think that you have had it bad, … Continue Reading All Together Now
Synopsis: Gorilla living at a mall circus contemplates the outside world. Ready for a tear-jerking, ultimately uplifting movie full of beautiful and sympathetic animals? Well, CGI animals. Yeah, I wasn’t … Continue Reading The One and Only Ivan
Synopsis: An exploration of scientist Marie Curie’s life, beginning with her introduction to Pierre Curie. When I was a kid, I learned in school that Marie Curie was the most … Continue Reading Radioactive
Synopsis: Two men in early 1800’s Oregon Territory try to make some cash with a cow. A movie featuring a cow? I’m there! Cattle are remarkable members of the bovine family. … Continue Reading First Cow
Synopsis: Comedy of manners based on the Jane Austen book in which the comely & aristocratic Emma acts as a matchmaker. Does the cinematic world need another adaptation of Jane … Continue Reading Emma.
