I hadn’t paid much attention to Dallas Buyers Club, until it won two acting Oscars. So when I went to see it the other day, I didn’t know much about it. I actually thought it had something to do with medical marijuana or cancer drugs, but learned that it was actually about AIDS drugs in…

Oh man, I loved this movie! I don’t use the word “charming” often, but this movie was charming, intelligent, witty, and laugh-out-loud funny at times. I probably missed a few references, but the little vignettes of the people Gil meets after midnight in Paris are just outstanding. Okay, it was pretty obvious right from the…

I watched The Great Gatsby on DVD yesterday. I started out being really annoyed with Baz Luhrmann’s over-the-top excesses – the loud, frenetic party scenes, the overly-glittery mansions, and the extreme “after the bomb” devastation of the “Valley of Ashes”. But I really liked Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting, and the many striking images in the film,…