Annette Bening twists like a mink on a leash through Stephen Frears’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel. This may be the perfect trope for the moral hysteria that coils around a mother, her son, and his girlfriend in this slender but highly pleasurable neo-noir. Small in effect and local in scope, the film is about […]
Labor Day
Labor Day begins when Adele (Kate Winslet) shows us with just a few gestures that she is not a happy woman, afraid to drive her car out of the driveway with her 13 year old son in tow to make her monthly trip to the local market. The son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) sees his mother’s […]
Spider-Man 2
Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) gives up his crime-fighting identity of Spider-Man in a desperate attempt to return to ordinary life and keep the love of MJ (Kirsten Dunst). But a ruthless, terrifying new villain, the multi-tentacled Dr. Octavius “Ock” (Alfred Molina), forces Peter to swing back into action to save everything he holds close. Ock, […]
Brooklyn
Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) must leave her beloved sister Rose (Fiona Glascott), and mother, Mary (Jane Brennan), behind on ‘The Emerald Isle’ to come to America for a chance at a better life sponsored by her mentor, Father Flood (Jim Broadbent). She will arrive with a job and a dream is in her smiling Irish […]
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