Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutesRating: PG-13Director: Taika Waititi Quick Impressions:If you like broad shoulders and broad humor, then the Thor movies just keep getting better and better. This one is full of engaging action, charismatic actors, and relentless (often physical) humor. It’s almost slapstick. (If they keep on like this, …
Runtime: 2 hours, 44 minutes Rating: R Director: Denis Villeneuve Quick Impressions: Although like most people, I consider the original Blade Runner a great film, I don’t have any deep, personal attachment to it. When I do call the 1982 Blade Runner to mind, I think immediately of the color …
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Patty Jenkins Quick Impressions: My first novel was about Wonder Woman. I wrote it when I was four-and-a-half in a spiral notebook with a Cabbage Patch Kid on the cover. It took up half a page, red ink, all caps. “OH HELLO. …
Runtime: 1 hours, 34 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen Quick Impressions: Pixar does excellent work, but perhaps because I’m now so pregnant I look like Violet Beauregarde (immediately pre-juicing) from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I haven’t been all that excited about Inside Out. I’ll be honest. …
Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Colin Trevorrow Quick Impressions: Saturday afternoon, my six-year-old spent just about the entire movie slouched way down into her seat, staring in wide-eyed horror up at the screen, occasionally making low sounds of alarm and leaning into her parents’ reassuring embrace. (My …
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes Rating: PG Director: Brad Bird Quick Impressions: Since we suffered no extreme calamities venturing out into the big, scary world to see The Avengers last weekend, my husband, daughter, and I decided to repeat the experiment and take in this week’s new release Tomorrowland. We had a few …
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Joss Whedon Quick Impressions: I’m almost 32 weeks pregnant now. The baby is measuring quite large, and I also have extra amniotic fluid for some reason. So these days when I look in the mirror, I see the CGI hulk where I …
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Quick Impressions: I’m done! I’ve finally seen all the Oscar nominated performances and pictures! And now I’m free! Free! Hooray! After this, I may take a brief hiatus from this blog until my son is born. I still …
Marion Cotillard Age: 39 Film: Two Days, One Night Role: Sandra, a Belgian wife and mother of two who has recently recovered from an episode of clinical depression and plans to return to her job when she learns that her co-workers have voted to eliminate her position in exchange for a …
Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Quick Impressions: Hoping to cry for ninety minutes straight but not sure how to make that happen? Have I got the movie for you! Still Alice is definitely worth seeing for Oscar fans because it’s pretty clear at …
