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People Who Live In Glass Houses
Everything, Everything poses the question of whether an opportunity for love is worth risking one’s life. Madeline Whittier has recently turned eighteen when the movie opens, yet she hasn’t been outside since being an infant and diagnosed with Severe Combined … Continue reading
Highway Robbery
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train is a sweet movie about a high school valedictorian-to-be thrust into a head of household role when her mother is arrested after an emotional meltdown at work in a Best Buy-like store. Confronted by … Continue reading
A Hard Day’s Night
Deux jours, une nuit is a dull movie with an interesting premise. Sandra’s co-workers vote for her to be laid off rather than lose a €1,000 bonus. As an accommodation, their boss agrees to hold another vote, granting Sandra the … Continue reading
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If Loving You Is Wrong
Loving is a film about Mildred and Richard Loving; a black woman and white man arrested in 1958 under Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws for the offending act of getting married. As a condition of their bail, the Lovings had to agree … Continue reading
Too Sexy For You
Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig opens in a crowded restaurant during lunch hour with Tom searching for an available table when he strikes up a conversation with Helen. She is obese and quite flirtatious with a wonderful sense of humor. Tom … Continue reading
Bully Pulpit
Whiplash opens with Andrew Neiman, a student practicing drums in an empty room at a prestigious New York music school. Terence Fletcher conducts a much sought after jazz band at the school, and offers Neiman a chance to join the … Continue reading
Size Doesn’t Matter
Spy is a clever spoof on the Bond-genre spy movies. It features Melissa McCarthy as a CIA employee working in a non-descript office where she uses her instinct and intelligence to serve as the eyes and ears for agents on … Continue reading
Keeping The Faith
Ida is a film about the connection between two characters who are related; one has lost faith, and another drawn closer to her faith. The story opens with a convent in Poland where Anna has been raised and is approaching … Continue reading
Landslide Will Bring It Down
Force Majeure is about a Swedish couple, Tomas and Ebba, and their young children, Vera and Harry, who are on a winter holiday at an alpine ski lodge. While taking a lunch break overlooking the mountain at a terrace restaurant, … Continue reading
Through The Eyes Of A Child
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping is a novel about the interplay of memory and imagination. The story is narrated by a granddaughter and opens with the patriarch who moved his family out west to Montana where he is killed riding a train … Continue reading
An Unturned Stone 