Movie Review: Lost in Paris

Lost in Paris, the new film by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, is the ultimate cinematic irritant. I imagine its target audience as the type of person who could watch The Grand Budapest Hotel and find it to be neither mannered nor detached…

Top 10 Romances on Film for Valentine’s Day

Well, the top ten mildly unconventional. I’m not what you’d call a romantic, typically bordering the lines of cynical rather than warm-hearted.  I wasn’t swept off my feet by Jack Dawson in Titanic, and I didn’t cry at the end…

11 Awesome Feel Good Movies

11. The Intouchables (2012) Often times, stories about the power of friendship are overwrought, yet this film keeps the perfect balance of the sweet and realistic. After a paragliding accident leaves him a quadriplegic, Philippe hires a young man, Driss,…