Andy's Film Blog

Like all Antonioni films I've encountered, Red Desert  is cold, empty, and somewhat turgid, dealing with upper class alienation (here...

A Nigerian doctor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) exiled from his own country and living illegally in London, drives a cab by day and works a hotel fr...

Antonio Salieri (F.Murray Abraham), former court composer for Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) and perfectly average musician, broods in...

An alien life form assumes the guise of a seductress (Scarlett Johansson) who travels around Glasgow, luring lonely and eager young men t...

Martin Luther King's tumultuous 1965 campaign is recreated, beginning with his acceptance of the Nobel Prize and the 16th Street Chur...

In Dustbowl Oklahoma, the Joad family is forced off their land by foreclosure and seeks a new start in California with thousands of other...

A depressed, lonely professor (Jake Gyllenhaal) rents a B grade movie and notices a stand-in actor who appears to be his doppelganger and...

Using his upbringing in Hannibal, Missouri and experiences as both a riverboat captain and gold miner as resources for The Adventures of ...

Based on a true story, an elderly man from Laurens, Iowa (Richard Farnsworth) learns his estranged brother is sickly and decides to bury ...

On an 1850s Oregon homestead, the eldest of seven boys (Howard Keel) decides the time is right for marriage, takes his cart into town and...

A street artist (Christoph Waltz) impresses a single mother and aspiring artist (Amy Adams) with his tales of classical training in the g...

A crazed Russian count (Leslie Banks) lives in almost total seclusion on a wooded island and, having tired from traditional gaming, patie...

The American Experience  two part docuseries on the retracted life, trials, and triumphs of the 35th President is occasionally enlighteni...

A young woman (Agata Kulesza) studying to be a nun at a 1960s remote countryside Polish abbey is urged to visit her urbane aunt (Agata Tr...

Rithy Panh, a Cambodian national who escaped the Khmer Rouge as a teen and lost family and friends to the mass genocide needed to have so...

Abused as a child and relegated to life in a brothel, a young woman finds refuge and success as a nightclub singer while taking solace in...

A proud and stubborn Polish immigrant (Marion Cotillard) is rescued from deportation at Ellis Island by a charming pimp (Joaquin Phoenix) ...

Donald Rumsfeld discusses his lengthy political career, beginning as a Congressman in the early 60s, his first stint of Defense Secretary...

The last days of a drug addicted, alcoholic, world weary saxophonist (real life jazzman Dexter Gordon) are spent abroad in Paris where he...

In the opening round of the 2001 Wimbledon Championships the world witnessed a grueling weeklong tennis bout between a bad boy fallen ido...

Clint Eastwood's filming of the smash Broadway musical, which details the founding of The Four Seasons (the hit pop vocal group heade...

A frustrated producer of a disdained, rough-hewn talk show (Seth Rogen) and his uncouth best friend/host (James Franco) find a chance for...

A directionless senior (John Cusack) wants nothing more out of life than to practice karate and woo the gorgeous, good natured, and seemi...

Emmett (voiced by Chris Pratt), a completely average in every way Lego piece, is mistaken for a hero and charged to save the world agains...

At a reformatory for problematic youth, a dedicated counselor's (Brie Larson) painful past comes to the foray with the arrival of a s...