We gen­er­ally do not review “R” rated movies in this web­site, but since we are  pub­lish­ing an arti­cle about the main actor, Den­zel Wash­ing­ton, this week we felt obliged to post a review of this movie.   Although this movie is not rec­om­mended for younger teens (It is rated “R” and has an objec­tion­able scene) […]

  A beau­ti­ful but dis­turb­ing movie about a group of high school mis­fits and how their friend­ship helps them through the hurt­ful prob­lems they are deal­ing with. The movie deals with a num­ber of very seri­ous issues (sex­ual abuse, homo­sex­u­al­ity, drug and alco­hol abuse). It is not for younger teens, but it is very well […]

  A hilar­i­ous car­toon movie well worth watch­ing. Selena Gomez does the voice of the vam­pire “teen” who is over­pro­tected by her lov­ing but obses­sive vam­pire father. The daddy vam­pire (who is harm­less, as are all the mon­sters in this movie) has cre­ated a hid­den hotel where he can pro­tect his daugh­ter from the “evil humans”, […]

    An enter­tain­ing com­edy about a “loser teacher” who decides he has to help a friend. His efforts seem doomed to fail­ure, as does his love life, but some­how he man­ages to find a way to at least do some­thing. The movie deals with the “over-​​​​the-​​​​hill” expe­ri­ence that most adults face. It also deals […]

I am always fas­ci­nated with movies by director/​​writer Christo­pher Nolan. This was no excep­tion. Nolan has an abil­ity to talk about the dark side, the evil that is lurk­ing in all of us. It is scary thing. Yet, in the Bat­man series, good even­tu­ally tri­umphs over evil. It is a story of hope, although it […]

  A beau­ti­ful movie. A rich, hand­i­capped man is look­ing for a new male nurse. A unem­ployed immi­grant from Africa shows up think­ing he will never get the job but that he can ful­fill the legal require­ments for unem­ploy­ment ben­e­fits by apply­ing for the job. The two begin an unlikely friend­ship. A truly inspir­ing story […]

  Remake of the Spi­der­man movie. I liked the first one bet­ter, but this had it’s pos­i­tive moments. The awk­ward­ness of the scene where Peter Parker finally get’s enough courage to ask the girl out is clas­sic. Her role in help­ing him dis­cover him­self and in help­ing him fight the bad guy is very positive. […]

A movie about early romance and about how even awk­ward attempts at romance have a cer­tain magic to them. Still, I came away with the impres­sion that the movie mak­ers were try­ing to mock adults and tra­di­tional insti­tu­tions and make them all look stu­pid. An inter­est­ing attempt at a new twist on a clas­sic theme […]

A wild and fiercely inde­pen­dent princess fights against the expec­ta­tions of her mother and her soci­ety. Her mother wants her to accept a betrothal for which she is not ready. Things take a mag­i­cal and com­i­cal turn when her mother is acci­den­tally turned into a bear. At moments the art­work and visual poetry of this movie […]