Brooklyn (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆

Movies like this don’t come along very often; Brooklyn is an old-fashioned romantic drama paced very deliberately, without the emotional peaks that moviegoers have come to expect.  It is beautifully photographed and very well acted, particularly by Saoirse Ronan (pronounced Seer-sha) […]

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Roman Holiday (1953)

by Barb Lentz.   The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Deliverance  (1972) Freaks  (1932) The Jazz Singer  (1927) Mighty Joe Young  (1949) Roman Holiday  (1953)   I was close to choosing Deliverance because it’s one […]

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Joy (2015) ☆ ☆

David O. Russell’s films often defy easy description, and Joy is no exception.  It is a comedic biographical drama, although it is largely fictional.  It posits that family connections are meaningfully important even when family members sue each other or cannot […]

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