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Goodbye Solo is a simple character drama that chronicles the interaction between a man who wants to end his life with dignity on his own terms and the Good Samaritan who believes there must be another way. On the surface, Goodbye Solo might appear...

I Love You Phillip Morris begins by telling us that it's based on a true story. Then, as if we might be disbelieving of that claim, it reinforces it. Truth, as they say, is stranger than fiction. (Not really, but the phrase sounds good, so we use ...

In Secret, an adaptation of Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin, is an effective period piece thriller that incorporates love, lust, desperation, and madness into a stew thickened by a gothic atmosphere. The film’s shortcomings - the most notable of wh...

We all know the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses," and so does first time writer/director Darrick Borte, who has used that as the basis for his debut, called (appropriately enough) The Joneses. The subject matter is simple enough: Borte has ele...

When today’s average movie-goer thinks of Judy Garland, the image that comes to mind is that of Dorothy Gale, the girl-next-door heroine of The Wizard of Oz. Few remember the Garland of the 1960s – a pill-popping alcoholic with a self-dest...

What’s in a name? It would be disingenuous to assume that Nick Hornby was ignorant of the titillation value of calling something “Juliet, Naked.” However, to be clear, there’s nothing prurient about the movie. The title refers to a son...

Watching The Last Showgirl, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the lyrics of the 1978 Barry Manilow song, “Copacabana”:Her name is Lola, she was a showgirl But that was thirty years ago, when they used to have a show Now it’s a disco, but ...

For a small percentage of people, grief can be a catalyst. For most of us, however, it’s a paralyzing force that threatens to entomb us in a coffin of sorrow and despair. Most movies, in attempting to depict this, fall into an abyss of melodram...

Long ago, the concept of "money" was devised as a means by which commerce could be simplified - after all, it's easier to carry around some kind of marker than cows or cattle or bags of grain. As society has evolved, however, so has the way in whic...