Movie Reviews

By Sandra Olmsted At the very least, Matthew McConaughey should get an Oscar nomination  for his role as Ron Woodroof, a homophobic, hedonistic Texan whose bad lifestyle choices lead to…

By Sandra Olmsted An animated film about turkeys revolting against being eaten seemed likely to have the same effect as the Thanksgiving scene in Giant, where three children cry loudly…

By Sandra Olmsted Say Sissy Spacek and the image of her in Brian De Palma’s Carrie will probably come to mind, and that incredible performance is as hard an act…

by Sandra Olmsted In Captain Phillips, director Paul Greengrass turns his eye for realism on true story of a container ship captain and the impoverished pirates who come for his…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film, Gravity, marries a simple, straightforward narrative to evocative visual complexity and delivers a subtle mediation of grief in the midst of a…

by Sandra Olmsted Halloween is coming, and as the days get shorter, humans need reasons to stay in at night, so scary, suspenseful films naturally appeal and provide the opportunity…

by Sandra Olmsted Writer-Director Edgar Wright's The World's End combines the nostalgia of attempting to “go home again” as Thomas Wolfe warns no one can and science fiction’s dystopia and…

by Sandra Olmsted Evocative of the comedy of Cheech & Chong, Rawson Marshall Thurber’s We’re the Millers also has lots of vulgarity and hilarity for the right audience although the…

by Sandra OlmstedWriter/Director Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, District 9, and Chappie, a comedy sci-fi in preproduction, establish him as an auteur scifi filmmaker and confirms he is attracted to the genre…