Like its last rattle, death lingers. Grief prescribes no easy to follow manual in how someone deals with the loss of a loved one, especially when that someone was the glue that held so much of a family together. Without…
Movie Review: The Incredible Jessica James
There is one thing that romantic comedies seem to have in common: they’re mainly about white women losing themselves over a man’s affection. They usually have a black best friend supporting their woes and constantly encouraging them to go after…
Tribeca Review: Love After Love
Like its last rattle, death lingers and grief hurts. There is no easy, manual prescribed manner in which someone deals with the loss of a loved one, especially when that someone was the glue that held so much of a…
The Wonderful World of What’s Streaming
So, you’d rather stay in tonight? It’s easy to get lost in the plethora of films ready to stream at our disposal. The movie world is our oyster, and, having already settled into the fashionable choice of Chinese take-out alone on…
Ally’s Movie Review: St. Vincent
I’m having a difficult time coming up with anything interesting to say about Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent that hasn’t been said before due to the film doing nothing we haven’t seen before. Bill Murray plays Vincent, a cantankerous old grump…
Ally’s Movie Review: Calvary
The virtuous, the evil and the damned, the faithful and bedridden, the devout and the defiled; all are represented, all are given their moments in the sun in this extraordinary look at life and forgiveness and all that falls in…
Movie Review: Cuban Fury
I laughed quite a lot during the Nick Frost lead Cuban Fury but in between the laughter was a somewhat meandering storyline, trying to be more than they needed to be. Frost plays Bruce an everyday, simple man who has…