Finding the Humor in Every Movie
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.
Synopsis: Two couples stay at a weekend rental where a stranger is watching. “Nothing like a getaway with friends at a luxury rental to recharge! Visitors will be especially energized … Continue Reading The Rental
Synopsis: Shark ruining tourists’ summer at Amity Island. Jaws is a movie about thousands of human fools hellbent on hurling themselves into the maw of a most pernicious and terrifying … Continue Reading Jaws
Synopsis: Filmed stage production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about Alexander Hamilton and his rise from poor orphan to major player in the American Revolutionary War and the nascent United States … Continue Reading Hamilton
Synopsis: A team is assembled to pull off a trippy piece of corporate espionage. You know when you wake up with a start from a bad dream, and after catching … Continue Reading Inception
Synopsis: Two underdogs represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest. Ah, the strange enigma that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Barely noticed in North & South America, beyond the notion … Continue Reading Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Synopsis: Two ranch hands fall in love in 1960’s Wyoming. When director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain was released in 2005, early buzz had dubbed it the “gay cowboy” movie, leaving moviegoers … Continue Reading Brokeback Mountain
***NEWS UPDATE*** In June of 2022, the United States Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade, the 1973 case that established the right to access abortion without excessive government restriction based … Continue Reading Never Rarely Sometimes Always
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