Andy's Film Blog

I am a firm believer in the medium of film, but the docudrama Touching the Void may strengthen the argument that some tales are too great fo...

The title refers to the time of a car crash and is also the jumping off point for five different stories all revolving around that event. Th...

As many of us have followed the career of Denzel Washington over the past twenty years, we have always known that he was a great actor, but ...

It opens with the title character doing an odd dance in the middle of the field. Soon her imbecile son whom she has a strange relationship w...

The Talented Mr. Ripley is an excellent enrty from the late Oscar winning director Anthony Minghella. As the film opens and we meet Tom R...

So after about 9 years I have decided to finally cave in and watch the Harry Potter series. I want to be able to watch the final two films i...

Well, I am one of the 25 million people who participate in a Fantasy Sports League, as we are informed at the beginning of Silly Little Game...

In 1993, the top high school athlete in basketball and football was involved in a bowling alley brawl in Hampton, Virginia that would ignite...

Steven Soderbergh is an Academy Award winning director who often makes great films, but also finds the need to experiment and it is when he ...

Repo Men is an ultra violent action film without a pulse, and is a prime example of not one but two stars not knowing how to pick their role...

Gattaca opens with the setting posted on screen stating "In The Not So Distant Future" and we assume it is going to be a morality ...

The movies have a certain appeal that can only be gotten in a theater, and with comedies, a crowded theater. Take Death of a Funeral for exa...

Kick-Ass is a wild, no-holds-barred superhero action picture that has been unfairly panned by certain critics. Yes there claims of disturbin...

The Westerns always took themselves so seriously until Butch and Sundance came riding in and lightened things up. Butch Cassidy and the...

It is 1974 and Don Revie, the beloved coach of England's soccer team Leeds United, has just resigned to take a job as manager of Team En...

A Grand Day Out (1989) After running out of cheese on a holiday, Wallace and Gromit do the natural thing and invent a rocket ship to go to ...

The Best of Youth is an ambitious 6 hour Italian film from 2003. It takes place throughout Italy from the mid-60s to the early 21st century ...

Go is a movie that is both irritating and insulting. It is a hyper-kinetic film that depicts one day in the lives of several teens from four...

Chloe is a movie that, given its material, would fall into a trashy Adrienne Lynn type of film. However, since it is directed by Atom Egoyan...

Gandhi is a grand spectacle, filmed in the same vein as a David Lean epic, though it was made as recently as 1982. With this film, Britis...

Hot Tub Time Machine is the latest entry in the recently popular raunchy buddy comedy genre, and though while offering occasional laughs, is...

They say that the romantic comedy is dead in Hollywood, and although I do not venture to see entries in the genre often, Date Night would se...

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is an ultra-successful Swedish import that blends thriller elements with drama to create a quite satisfying ...

This 1988 Dutch thriller does several interesting things with the abduction movie in that the plot is disjointed and nonlinear and also in t...

The Piano is director Jane Campion's hailed film from 1993 which earned her a Best Director nod as well as critical praise. Oscars also ...