Andy's Film Blog

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

Saturday, December 31, 2016

La La Land

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Two aspiring artists, a would be actress and current coffee shop worker(Emma Stone) and a semi-delusional jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling), me...
Friday, December 30, 2016

When We Were Kings

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Leon Gast's behind the scenes look at "The Rumble in the Jungle," the storied 1974 Ali/Foreman Zaire based title fight whic...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Nocturnal Animals

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A morose art gallery curator (Amy Adams), with her second marriage to a suave, disloyal decorator (Armie Hammer) on the outs, receives by...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Fences

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A grandiloquent, resentful ex-Negro leagues ballplayer (Denzel Washington), deemed too old for the big leagues following integration, wor...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Shallow Grave

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After putting interview subjects through the ringer, three crass roomates (Ewan McGregor, Christorpher Eccleston, Kerry Fox) finally fi...

Jindabyne

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An Irishman (Gabriel Byrne) finds the body of a missing Aborigine girl on a fishing trip and decides to carry on with his mates and not r...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Jackie

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Barely a week after the assassination of her husband, Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) grants an authoritative interview to a smug report...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Match Point

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A tennis pro (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is welcomed into the wealthy family of one of his tutees (Matthew Goode) and is soon given a prominen...

Top Hat

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A socialite (Ginger Rogers) vacationing abroad mistakes an actor (Fred Astaire) for her friend's husband who is actually married to t...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Hacksaw Ridge

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The story of Delmer Doss (Andrew Garfield), a God fearing Virginia apple knocker who enlists in the Army Ranger corp as a medic while ref...

Selected Shorts by Werner Herzog

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Just as he has been drawn to epic, quixotic projects, in his extended career Werner Herzog has also favored short form storytelling, the ...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Arrival

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As a series of anomalous spacecrafts land in unusual locations around the globe without making their intentions clear, a melancholic ling...

My Best Fiend

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Werner Herzog looks back on his temptestuous friendship and professional relationship with Klaus Kinski, the maniacal actor with whom t...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Moonlight

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Told in three passages, Moonlight conveys the story of an alienated black youth from childhood (Alex Hibbert) to adolescense (Ashton Sand...

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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In 1919 Ireland, a medical novice (Cillian Murphy) leaves a promising career to fight in a guerrilla unit alongside his brother and fello...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Manchester by the Sea

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A grieving and detached maintenance man (Casey Affleck), living in near isolation in a Boston area one-room apartment of the complex he t...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Everest

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In 1996, a overcautious mountain guide (Jason Clarke), while in competition with a rival climbing outfit, led an expedition to the summit...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Victoria

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A Spanish born music student (Laia Costa) enrolled in the conservatory in Berlin and barely familiar with the language spends her Saturda...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Loving

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A white bricklayer and amateur drag racer (Joel Edgerton) builds a home in segregated rural Virginia and travels to Washington, D.C. to w...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Short Cuts

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A man and his fishing buddies refuse to let a dead body ruin their weekend expedition, the revelation leaving his wife not knowing how to...
Friday, November 25, 2016

The Purple Rose of Cairo

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A bored waitress, trapped in a loveless marriage to a no good drunken lout (Danny Aiello) in Depression era Brooklyn, seeks daily escape ...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

The Address

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A year in the life of severely learning disabled students at the specialized Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont who are required to reci...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Leolo

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Jean-Claude Lauzon's imaginative film grows on you, is even moving in segments, but is told in a pretentious, philosophical tone with...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Nanook of the North

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In 1914, explorer Robert J Flaherty decided to document an Inuit family he had befriended along the Hudson Bay area in Canada and, in doi...
Monday, October 31, 2016

What We Do in the Shadows

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A centuries old clan of vampires deal with the day to day rigors of urban life in modern New Zealand while preparing to attend the annual...
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