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“Zack and Miri Make a Porno” is hilarious from start to finish. Kevin Smith wrote and directed this movie in his typical “Clerks” style. As with most Kevin Smith movies there is profanity and extreme humor involved. How do you make simulated porn funny? Smith manages it with the added bonus of a romance in [...]

“The Reader” is a phenomenal movie, at once riveting, disturbing and painful to watch. Much of this is due to the brilliant acting of Kate Winslet who deservedly won the Oscar for best actress for her devastating portrayal of Hanna Schmitz, the troubled older woman who seduces a teenager. I can’t imagine anyone else acting [...]

This made for TV movie aired back in 1997 and is a good family film geared for older children and their parents. I rented it because I love Charles Dickens novels and I watch anything Richard Dreyfuss is in. Dreyfuss is a great actor and in this film he’s excellent as usual. “Oliver Twist” is [...]

“Elegy” is a film about intimacy and one man’s inability to allow intimacy into his life. This well acted film tackles some ugly topics of which I have to admit hindered my appreciation for the content of the film. Middle-aged  professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is a self confessed womanizer who has never grown up. [...]

This Woody Allen film is an interesting study of one of his favorite themes, relationships and love’s complications. As Woody Allen films go this was a good one featuring a great cast, great direction and great screenplay. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” follows the adventures of two best friends who have very different ideas on life and [...]