Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop

Conan O’Brien

★★★ Director: Rodman Flender Year: 2011 Even if you don't like Conan, you know about his plight and the summer tour that he took. This documentary follows ...

Troubadours

Troubadours

★★★ Director: Morgan Neville Year: 2011 What's great about this documentary is that I had no idea about this singer/songwriter movement in the early '70s. It's a ...

Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses

★★ Director: Seth Gordon Year: 2011 The best thing about this film is Kevin Spacey. He continues to be great in whatever roles he chooses for himself ...

The Goonies

The Goonies

★★★★ Director: Richard Donner Year: 1985 I wanted to watch this with the kids and then realized my wife had never seen it. And she still hadn't ...

Summertime

Summertime

★★ Director: David Lean Year: 1955 So as much as I love Audrey Hepburn, I've never been a huge Katharine Hepburn fan. Maybe in a couple of ...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark o

★★ Director: Michael Bay Year: 2011 What do you expect  from Transformers' films? Not much. Just mindless explosions, but this one was worse than the previous. And ...

Note By Note

Note By Note

★★★★ Director: Ben Niles Year: 2007 This is a fascinating documentary, even for someone like me who never learned to appreciate classical music, read music, nor how ...

How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Milli

★★★★ Director: William Wyler Year: 1966 Everyone should know that I have a huge crush on Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my favorite actresses, ever. So it goes ...

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap

Dr. Bronner’s

★★★ Director: Sara Lamm Year: 2006 We started using Dr. Bronner's soap when M. was a baby as we were told this 'magic soap' would get out ...

Moneyball

Moneyball

★★★★ Director: Bennett Miller Year: 2011 I was very curious to see how you could make a film out of Moneyball. But the results were excellent. I'm ...

The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones

★★★ Director: Peter Jackson Year: 2009 I was shocked that Peter Jackson directed this, such an odd film for him. I'm not sure what I expected, but ...

The Beaver

The Beaver

★★★★ Director: Jodie Foster Year: 2011 Now here's another film that I never thought I'd watch. First, it's Mel Gibson and the premise of a man wearing ...

The Guard

The Guard

★★★★ Director: John Michael McDonagh Year: 2011 I had seen trailers for this so many times and each time it didn't look entertaining and I had no ...

Paul

Paul

★★★ Director: Greg Mottola Year: 2011 Continuing on alien films, here's a great film that takes a completely different approach to what an extra terrestrial should behave ...

Captain America: The First Avenger

Captain America: The

★★★ Director: Joe Johnston Year: 2011 As summer blockbuster's went, I wasn't that interested in watching this. Granted, I never read any of the comics growing up. ...

Your Highness

Your Highness

★★ Director: David Gordon Green Year: 2011 Hmmm, so I didn't like Pineapple Express so not sure why I'd watch this. But someone told me that this ...

Everything Must Go

Everything Must Go

★★★ Director: Dan Rush Year: 2010 I don't ever remember hearing or seeing this at the theaters. But the premise is so simple, the set and location ...

Best in Class

Best in Class

★★★★ Director: Christopher Guest Year: 2000 I was watching this again, researching for a project. I forgot how brilliant this film is. All of the characters are ...