Andy's Film Blog

The story of how, after meeting Elvis at a young age and later seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, Tom Petty became singularly fo...

Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) has only two purposes in life: To find success as a stuntman and to use his abilities to stage a benefit show t...

Learning from his predecessor and mentor, Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) expands Bumpy Johnson's Harlem drug empire through a Vietna...

In a bleak and not too distant future, the Blade Runner unit of the LAPD is charged with tracking down and “retiring” rogue replicants, o...

Due to the sheer magnitude of the greatest and bloodiest conflict in history, Ken Burns decided to focus his series documenting World War...

A professor and Turkish immigrant living in Germany disapproves of the prostitute his widowed father has provided shelter for back home. ...

SPOILERS abound. Again, its hard to write about a serial without discussing the plot. Season 7, Parts 1 & 2 (2014, 2015) A...

In 1992 Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch), an intelligent, affable recent college graduate hailing from a well to do family, quietly and co...

Two struggling, intellectual, and nearly estranged siblings, an unpublished playwright (Laura Linney) in an affair with a married man and...

On a hot summer afternoon on an English country manor in the quiet days before World War II, a precocious girl (Saoirse Ronan followed by...

Pete Seeger, who died earlier this week, was known as a walking repertoire of the American Songbook who added a few entries of his own an...

While the self-anointed Zodiac killer terrorizes residents in the Bay Area through random acts of manslaughter and cryptic messages sent ...

Todd Haynes' I'm Not There  attempts to examine the life of Bob Dylan by telling a story in which six actors in separate vignette...

The other night I watched Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg , a classic film that held a place in my my mind as a powerful, all-...

A young (Kerri Russell) buries the misery inflicted by her cruel and controlling husband (Jeremy Sisto) in the delectable pies she bakes ...

Three brothers (Owen Wilson, ), all reeling in their own way following the death of their father, meet in India and embark on an expansiv...

Philip Glass is the reserved, minimalist composer who is famous for his resounding, hypnotic, and intentionally redundant pieces. Over th...

Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an insolvent real estate broker and his employee brother (Ethan Hawke) is doing much better. To relieve the...

"Hollywood Chinese" is a twofold exploration by Alfred Dong of Chinese Americans roles in Hollywood films and how they are portray...

The eccentric and existential Werner Herzog set out to make a documentary about Antarctica, but not one focusing exclusively on the wildl...