By Laurie Coker Rating: A My sister lived on a boat of some kind for well over twenty years, more than ten of those she spent with her co-captains sailing or motoring down the Pacific coast, through the Panama Canal at one point, and eventually, she ended up in Florida, after longs stints in Mexico,… Continue reading Review: KON-TIKI
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Review: FRANCES HA
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Writer/director Noah Baumbach’s latest collaboration with his girlfriend, writer/director/actress Greta Gerwig proves to be a successful one. Their collaboration, a film titled Frances Ha, takes mumblecore and channels it through the aesthetics of Woody Allen, cinematographer Gordon Willis (Manhattan), and French New Wave cinema, particularly the… Continue reading Review: FRANCES HA
Review: KON-TIKI
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) This Norwegian film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language film this year. So it came as a bit of a surprise to me when all of the characters in the movie spoke English. As part of my usual research prior to writing reviews, I… Continue reading Review: KON-TIKI
Review: NOW YOU SEE ME
By Laurie Coker Rating: A- Once in NYC, I fell prey to a street magician and since then I have a bit of an aversion to the trade, but not the talent. I remember loving David Coppefield and sat in awe at one of his shows, years ago. Like many magic tricks, perhaps all in… Continue reading Review: NOW YOU SEE ME
Review: SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORFS
By Laurie Coker Rating: C+ New York City, a place like no other, and one I have visited every year for over fifteen years now. I love it! In spite of these annual visits, Bergdorf’s of New York has never been on my must see list. In fact, to be honest, while I have made… Continue reading Review: SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORFS
Review: SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S
By Mark Saldana Rating: 2 (Out of 4 Stars) Perhaps I do not fall in the correct demographic for this film. I am in no way whatsoever a fashionista. I am a T-shirt and jeans kind of guy. I love to dress as comfortably as I possibly can, depending on the occasion. Still, as I… Continue reading Review: SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S
Review: EPIC
By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of 4 Stars) What happens when filmmakers take a creative and imaginative fictional world, but do not do anything creative or imaginative with it? Well, an example of that result is a sometimes entertaining, but mediocre movie titled Epic. Loosely based on William Joyce’s book, The Leaf Men and… Continue reading Review: EPIC
Review: FAST & FURIOUS 6
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) I was not a huge fan of the Fast & Furious movie franchise. I enjoyed The Fast and the Furious because it has some highly laughable writing and acting, but it also features some superb stunt driving. Flash forward through four movies of both horrendous and… Continue reading Review: FAST & FURIOUS 6
Review: BEFORE MIDNIGHT
By Laurie Coker Rating: A Few films can sustain characters like Richard Linklater’s films Before Sunrise (1994), Before Sunset (2004) and now, nine years later, his newest in the series Before Midnight, but because they are richly drawn and immensely engaging, we follow along in their lives with interest and curiosity. We can find comfort… Continue reading Review: BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Review: HANGOVER PART III
By: Laurie Coker Rating: F Notably, as my male critic friends pointed out at the screening, I am NOT the target demographic for the new Hangover film, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, and Ken Jeong, reprising their roles and proving some men never learn. I went in whining from the start, convinced the… Continue reading Review: HANGOVER PART III