Andy's Film Blog

A blog dealing with either the joy of cinema or the agony of cinema--nothing in between.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

The Devil's Double

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As the first Iraq war approaches, an Iraqi soldier is summoned by Uday Hussein, Saddam's son, to his palace and is requested to be his b...

Faces

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After a night of carousing with a friend (Fred Draper) and a call girl (Gena Rowlands), a successful business man (John Marley) returns h...

Paul

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Two nerds from the U.K. attend Comic-Con and partake on a journey in a rented R.V. through the southwest on a tour of supposed UFO sites. Af...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Moneyball

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After his Oakland Athletics tanked after going two games up on the Yankees in the first round of the 2001 playoffs and he loses his three be...

The Future

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Miranda July's "The Future" is a film of incomprehensible prattle that has something to do with a couple adopting a dying cat ...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Attack the Block

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A group of juvenile delinquents rob a young woman on the streets of South London and as they are about to walk away with the spoils a massiv...

The Debt

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In 1966 a trio of Mossad agents (Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Martin Csokas) has been assigned to East Berlin to capture Dieter Vogel,...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

The Whistleblower

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Kathryn Bolkovac was a police officer in Lincoln, Nebraska who lost custody of her children and saw her career hitting a dead end, so she de...

Stop Making Sense

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"Stop Making Sense" is one of the great concert films, right up there with "Woodstock" and "The Last Waltz" , ...

The Guard

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An police sergeant in a small Irish village sits in his cruiser by the side of the road as a car goes blazing by. Up the road he rolls up on...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Pursuit to Algiers

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are vacationing and Scotland when they receive a very strange and cryptic message inviting them to a private ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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On a manor on the English moors, Sir Charles Baskerville is killed by a rabid dog and an old legend is resurrected regarding a curse in the ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Hall Pass

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Two restless married men with sex constantly on the brain are given a week off of their marriages by their wives. Things go unexpectedly and...

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

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After a gruesome opening scene in the basement of an old mansion, the story begins some 60 years later as an architect, his girlfriend, and ...

Our Idiot Brother

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After doing a stint in jail for selling marijuana to a uniformed police officer, Ned is kicked out of his home on an organic farm by his gir...

The Sunshine Boys

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In vaudeville's heyday Al Lewis and Willy Clark were a top act, performing their routine thousands of times over a number of years. Offs...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Cold Weather

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While taking a break from studying forensics, Doug returns home to Portland, Oregon, moves in with his sister Gail, and takes a minimum wage...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Twin Peaks

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David Lynch is a director I have never gotten. His films are murky and strange and border on the incomprehensible. However, with television ...

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

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"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" is a prequel to the acclaimed David Lynch television series and briefly shows the investigation of...

Freakonomics

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Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner wrote the book Freakonomics in which they examined human behavior and incentive based thinking in the hope...

Sarah's Key

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For two days in 1942 in what would come to be known as the Vel d'Hiv Roundup, approximately 3,000 Parisian Jews were detained in a large...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Great Expectations

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In an update and modernization of the often filmed Dickens classic, we follow Finn (Pip) as he aids an escaped convict on the Florida mars...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Cameraman

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A man who sells tinted photographs on a New York City street corner comes across a young woman during a ticker tape and is immediately smitt...

Fright Night

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After his friend Adam doesn't show up to school for a few days, Charlie is roped into investigating his disappearance by Ed, his other n...

Stand by Me

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A writer recounts a Labor Day weekend when he was twelve years old in the small town of Castle Rock, Oregon when he sought out with three of...
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