Sleepwalk with Me isn’t your typical Hollywood fare. It’s a bit of an odd mix of a straight-forward light comedy mixed in with a rather intriguing and interesting documentary style. The film purports to give us a glimpse of the real life of stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia. Mike is very much your average fish-out-of-water type. […]

Richard Gere is back with a new film called Arbitrage. Gere plays a business tycoon/wheeler-dealer who seems to be the darling of Wall Street but, like many such perspectives of recent years, appearances can be deceiving—and so can Gere’s character. The real draw of the film is in the evil way it brings us into […]

Stunning visual imagery takes the viewer on a surreal journey around the world, from the common to the exotic, in a trance-like experience in the new film, Samsara. One of the most unusual and most difficult to describe movies I’ve ever seen has to be Samsara. This film, from a director known (perhaps that’s too […]

One trend you can follow is just how long certain art house films hang around seemingly well past the typical run length. Beasts of the Southern Wild is one of those films. It’s been out locally now for quite a long while. I was intrigued by the previews and the incredibly solid reviews including several […]

Music is a funny business in many ways. One of the oddities of music revolves around the fickle nature of success. Some musicians are hit the big time while others labor in obscurity. What’s more perplexing is when an artist is relatively unknown in one country while being a virtual superstar in another. Searching for […]

The movie poster for Robot & Frank evokes a bit of wonder that grabbed my attention instantly. This was a film I needed to see. The multitude of positive reviews certainly didn’t diminish my interest either. Leonard Maltin called it, “one of the most enjoyable indie films of the year.“ It stars Frank Langella, most […]

It’s not clear if the story told in The Intouchables is a true story, simply inspired by a true story or a fictional story claiming to be based on a true story but one thing is clear—it’s a charming story. The plot focuses on the coming together of two individuals from entirely dissimilar backgrounds. One […]

In 1994 a 13 year-old boy from San Antonio, Texas goes missing without a trace. The family begins to move on from the tragedy when, more than three years later they get a call that police have found the child alive and, more or less, well in, of all places, Spain. The Imposter is a documentary […]

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist who’s life has taken him from China to New York City and back to China where success finally took hold after he became one of the consultants involved in the design of the main stadium for the 2008 Olympics. From that moment forward Ai Weiwei has been […]

Calvin Weir-Fields (played by Paul Dano) is potentially America’s next great literary wonder. He had the fortune (or misfortune depending on your perspective) of writing a beloved book with his first effort out of the gate at 19 years old. Now, several years later, he’s stuck with a seemingly endless case of writer’s block while […]

I’m just back from several weekends in Ocean City and finally caught a movie I’ve wanted to see for a while at the local Rave movie theater. The film is the independent documentary called The Queen of Versailles. The movie tells the story of the Siegel family; David, Jackie and their seven kids, dogs, assorted […]

The other film of the week is Woody Allen‘s latest endeavor—To Rome with Love. Here we get a tale that involves us in the story lines of several groups of people all centered around Rome. First there’s Hayley and her new Italian boyfriend Michelangelo (Alison Pill and Flavio Parenti) and her parents, Jerry and Phyllis (Woody Allen and Judy Davis) […]