My Life Without Me
My Life Without Me 2003 106 minutes. Rated R. “This is you. Eyes closed, out in the rain. You never thought you’d be doing something like this, you never saw yourself as, I don’t know how you’d describe it… like one of those people who like looking up at the moon, who spend hours gazing at the waves or the sunset or… I guess you know the kind of people I’m talking about. Maybe you don’t....
My Girl
1991 102 minutes. Rated PG. “You forgot about the time I wanted to be a magician. I was really great at making myself disappear.” Tomboy Veda Sultenfuss has a problem. In fact, she’s convinced she’s dying. According to her, she has a chicken bone stuck in her throat and it’s slowly killing her. Remember when you were in elementary school and certain movies and music were considered “cool” (in...
Malice
1993 105 minutes. Rated R. “Likes shooting fish in a barrel.” Call it a thriller, call it a suspenseful drama, call it a hybrid noir of sorts, Malice is an early nineties film that has a lot of genuine suspense and action, which can be confusing if linear plot lines are your thing. Malice has that old school style that makes it easy to place in terms of decade (mid-nineties). There are certain movies though not...
Der Rauber (The Robber)
2010. 101 minutes. Unrated. European film is typically unfamiliar territory for me, and one which I tend to explore in small doses. A little Polanksi (Replusion) here, a little Schlondorff (Tin Drum) there; maybe a French one (Ann Parillaud’s, Sex is Comedy), the original Funny Games (Michael Haneke’s German serial killers and media satire, all uniquely un-American in style, plot, dialog, existential reflections,etc). Well,...
Crazy Stupid Love
2011. 118 minutes. Rated R. Quote: “I will never stop trying. Because when you find the one… you never give up.” Steve Carrel plays Hal Weaver, a smart, good-on-paper, 40-something dude with all his ducks in a row: a great family, pretty wife, job, nice home. Julianne Moore plays Hal’s wife, Emily Weaver. On what seems like a VERY typical date night for the couple, she steamrolls him with a frank divorce...