Andy's Film Blog

Oleanna is a confounding film made by David Mamet in 1994. Starring William H. Macy, it is essentially a two-man play brought to the scree...

I wanted to check out Iron Man before seeing the sequel, but that didn't happen and I am only now getting around to it. When I saw the s...

As the servants are preparing for a dinner party at their master's residence, a few of them leave for unexplained reasons. Soon the gues...

Nowadays the movies have been overrun by vampires, and in the movie Daybreakers the entire world has been overrun by vampires, feeding off t...

One of the pleasures of going to the movies is when you are able to enjoy a movie you though you wouldn't due to panning by audiences or...

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947 Black Narcissus may be the most beautiful film ever made. A film in which the plot and the ...

The title character is being identified in a morgue by an older British journalist living in 1952 Saigon as the film opens up. The man claim...

Nickie Ferrante is such a world famous bachelor that even one of the Gondoliers in Venice tells his clients that Ferrante is getting married...

Moulin Rouge! is Baz Luhrmann's labor of love from 2001, and the film that was thought to have revived the musical in Hollywood. By taki...

Terms of Endearment does all the things right that almost none of the romantic comedies can do today. Released in 1983 to rave reviews and b...

Memento is the story of a man who can form no new memories and is looking for the man who murdered his wife and caused this condition, an...

π (Pi) is the 1998 directorial debut of dark and acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky. Shot on a shoestring in grainy black and white, it tel...

I could upload a David Mamet movie to my I-Pod and listen to it while I exercise or drive. Mamet's prose is almost lyrical and it soun...

1991's Thelma & Louise does an interesting thing with the road movie. It casts two women in the lead of an ultra-feminist script, ye...

Most films about drugs, no matter how entertaining or successful, never really hit the nail on the head. By either glorifying or vilifying...

Vera Drake is British filmmaker Mike Leigh's 2004 release that features a powerhouse performance from Imelda Staunton. The setting is En...

Climates is the type of film that critics adore and send most other movie fans running. It is slow, languid, and introspective and will at t...

Paul Newman was always regarded as a fine actor, but many believed he truly blossomed in his later years. His performance in Richard Brook...

Talk to Her is Perdo Almodovar's acclaimed film from 2002. It is the story of two couples in Spain, wherein both of the women are comato...

Run Ricky Run details star running back Ricky Williams 2004 decision to leave football and spend a year on his own instead of facing a four ...

Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) was the editor of Elle Magazine who had all of life's pleasures at his fingertips. Then one day...

Iron Man 2 is a perfectly servicable sequel and in many ways outdoes the original. Iron Man 2 opens during Tony Stark's revelation th...

Let Him Have It is a British film from 1991 that inhabits its time and place, 1952 London, with great period detail as it details one of the...

I was a few minutes late into see Gigi and for a few seconds I thought I was in the wrong theater. That's how great the Technicolor look...

Five Easy Pieces is the first film to feature Jack Nicholson in the lead in what may be hist best role, a character study, and an America...