Andy's Film Blog

I don't think I have to preface it anymore by saying I'm a giant nerd, but the Academy Awards are my Superbowl, nomination day...

Sofia Coppola is a fine filmmaker who deserves to be judged on her own merits and not her father's last name. With Somewhere, again work...

A marriage is more then likely to dissolve when a child is lost. In Rabbit Hole, we witness a married couple dealing with the loss of their ...

Blue Valentine shows a relationship from two different stages: one as it is just starting out and one several years down the road. The early...

Reviews and synopses have been too revealing with what this story is about. Without giving away too much we follow a young couple in the lat...

Throughout the year, I have been keeping track of my favorite films and compiling them into a top 10 list for the end of the year. However,...

1/29/11 review  So maybe I forgot to take my Vitamin D that day, but I was exhausted the first time I saw The Fighter and may not have gi...

March 2011 Lamplighter review  As a young man in grade school, I participated in sports and theater and before a sporting event or a live pe...

As a wrestler in high school, I never understood the mentality of the athletes who would wrestle in the 103 lb. weight class: starving thems...

Milos Forman is considered the director of misfits, having directed films about such misunderstood souls such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo...

January 2011 Review  127 Hours tells the true to life tale of Aron Ralston’s horrific 2003 mountain climbing excursion in Robber’s Roost, Ut...

Waiting for 'Superman' is the latest from Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) and tells about the state of our public schools. ...

The title of this film refers to an outpost in the most dangerous sector of  Afghanistan  and is named after PFC Juan Restrepo, who opens th...

 “I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema.” Francois Truffaut is undoubtedly turning as ...

Catfish is a "documentary" that I'm more than tempted to examine, but it works better the less you know about it going in. So ...

I was kind of shocked at the level of gore in Let Me In. It's not excessive as far as horror movies go, it just seems shocking to see in...

The House of Steinbrenner opens with the last year's Yankee World Series victory and the documentary comes off at first as a Yankee love...

Philip Seymour Hoffman is an actor who opens himself up on screen, leaving all of his good and bad qualities for the audience to bear. With ...

Jaws is recognized as many things: A study in tension, the movie that created the summer blockbuster, and the film that put Steven Spielberg...

We go into revenge thrillers knowing what to expect, with audience manipulation being among the expectations. Therefore, if we treat them as...

One doesn't expect an affecting drama and a well shot film from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, but that is what we have with their ...

Nowhere Boy is a horrible film that takes all of the elements that made John Lennon's early life compelling and fouls them up or omits t...

23 years after the first film, the Wall Street sequel picks up in 2008 on the precipice of the global financial collapse A free man for seve...

Amidst all the hoopla surrounding I’m still here and the speculation surrounding its authenticity, what few are mentioning is how well the f...

The title refers to the cover story of a 1965 issue of National Geographic, and when two grown siblings find that their recently deceased mo...