Family Planning (Film Review: “Private Life”)
- By Norma
- October 12, 2018
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Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn shine as an intellectual, 40-something couple in Manhattan whose struggles with infertility have reached the point of desperation, until an egg donor materializes in the form of their hero-worshiping niece. What could possibly go wrong? Continue Reading →
Mommie Dearest Must Die (Series Review: “Ordeal by Innocence”)
- By Norma
- September 21, 2018
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For anyone who thinks they’ve got the most dysfunctional family on the planet, here’s an Agatha Christie murder mystery that will send you shrieking to therapy. Welcome home! Continue Reading →
Follow The Money (Film Review: “The Resistance Banker”)
- By Norma
- September 14, 2018
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A suspenseful, true-story nail-biter about the shadow bank that financed the Dutch Resistance operation and beyond, during WWII. The Resistance Banker is a history lesson for all generations. Continue Reading →
Forgive You, Fathers, For You Have Sinned (Film Review: “Spotlight”)
- By Norma
- September 7, 2018
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The searing and sensational movie that chronicled how a small group of Boston Globe investigative reporters took down the Catholic Church. Now more timely than ever, revisiting Spotlight. Continue Reading →
What’s It All About? (Documentary Review: “The Most Unknown”)
- By Norma
- August 31, 2018
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A unique approach to a science documentary in which – like a game of global tag – nine cutting edge researchers exploring the outer limits of human knowledge literally drop in on each other’s ‘laboratories’ to get a peek at an area of scientific exploration they know nothing about . . . this film borders on the Delightful. Continue Reading →
A Dish Best Served Old (Film Review: “Remember”)
- By Norma
- August 24, 2018
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A taught and tragic psychological thriller about a nursing home patient who turns assassin, seeking revenge on the Nazi soldier who – 70 years earlier – killed his entire family at Auschwitz. A nail biter like no other with a twisty reveal that will leave you shaken to your core. Continue Reading →
Guess Who’s Staying for Dinner? (Film Review: “Beatriz at Dinner”)
- By Norma
- August 17, 2018
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Beatriz at Dinner is the sort of movie you might not want to watch with politically polar friends, unless you welcome the rousing debate this ‘dramedy’ of manners will invite to your dinner table. Continue Reading →