Movie Reviews

By Sandra Olmsted (While fans of the book know what happens, I have done my best not to spoil the plot for those unfamiliar with the novel.) The old joke…

By Sandra Olmsted What Americans know about Africa is limited and skewed by films like Coming to America and now news reports of the ebola epidemic. Africa consists of 50 plus…

By Sandy Olmsted Directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi’s The Boxtrolls spins a delightfully dark little tale of greed, corruption, and victimization against a backdrop of class warfare, which may…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Roger Donaldson's The November Man closely follows the formula cold-war-era spy thriller, which will be new to younger audiences and familiar to older ones. Coaxed out…

Movie Review   by Sandra Olmsted      As disaster films go, director Steven Quale’s Into the Storms delivers all those films promise: huge, exciting special effects and a human face…

The Giver: Taken Away by Sandra Olmsted     After nearly twenty years, director and star Jeff Bridges has finally succeeded in his struggle to get a film adaptation of Lois…

By Sandra Olmsted Can a man who relies on reason really live without some sort of magic in his life, be that magic a belief in God, a spiritual wonder…

Boyhood: Cumulative Effect by Sandra Olmsted Growing up is the cumulative effect of natural, health body processes and the experience the world writes on an individual, and that’s what writer/director…

  Get On Up, story of James Brown by Sandra Olmsted      Director Tate Taylor delicately traces both the sources of James Brown’s musical influences and the reasons for his…