Oh well. The first 15 minutes looked good. And I liked the period detail. Fortunately, I got a gift pass from AMC and will try to get into a showing tomorrow or Monday….friggin insane!!

“I have a degree in history from one of the finest universities and yet my husband still speaks to me like I’m an idiot,” says Lisa (Rosamund Pike), the wife of a U.K. Ford executive to Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins), leader of a strike among female sewing machinists at the Ford Dagenham assembly plant in [...]

I still think he’s the prince of blandness. But clearly, People mag could care less what I think as I’m not their target audience. Honestly, Reynolds has as much sex appeal as a cough drop. But then, it’s only my opinion.

I’m not going to give a full review or even a partial review of the Danny Boyle-directed, James Franco-starring 127 Hours, which was just released. I want this blog to be true to its mission by focusing on films that target women. However, I did see this film over the weekend and it would be [...]

Sounds condescending, don’t you think? I mean, would ANY year be dubbed the year of “The Actor?” I don’t think so. But AwardsDaily.com’s wonderfully canny critic/writer Sasha Stone feels 2010 was a year in which great female lead performances proliferated as opposed to previous years where they have been sadly scarce. Check out her article [...]

Since seeing the just released Morning Glory, an entertaining but very thin-content and substance-wise–film about a young morning TV producer hired to hike up the ratings of a floundering show, I keep on thinking about this one scene in the film that just makes me chuckle in hindsight. Becky Fuller (the winning Rachel McAdams, who [...]

“Who can turn the world on with her smile? Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? Well, it’s you girl and you should know it, with each glance and every little movement you show it.” Such were the beginning lyrics for “Love is All Around,” the catchy theme song [...]

In 2003, former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson was outed by the late Robert Novack in his then Washington Post column, thus destroying Plame’s career. Later on, it was revealed in a special probe that the leak had been orchestrated by Vice President Cheney’s nefarious Chief of Staff Scooter Libby as revenge against Plame’s husband, [...]

Minutes after I began watching Winter’s Bone, the Debra Granik-directed indie about an Ozark teenager’s search for her absent, drug-dealing father, I was overwhelmed by a single cyclonic reaction: A LONG ELONGATED GROAN! It wasn’t so much the very bleak surroundings that was the initial source of my despair but…the incomprehensible mountain accents. When I [...]

Even though I haven’t been posting on this blog much these days due to the recent death of my father (I did post a review of Hereafter last weekend and will try to post a review of another film this weekend), I had to post about Jill Clayburgh’s death. I was stunned to read her [...]