Winter’s Bone
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 Posted in Movie Reviews, Sister Lorie | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_1285" align="alignleft" width="94" caption="Winter's Bone"][/caption] I was curious when scanning the local theater offerings to find a movie that was not on my radar. Reading the first few lines of the synopsis, I became curiouser and curiouser. The film was shot ...
Avatar
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in Movie Reviews | 3 Comments »Movie Review by Sister Lorie You can’t miss the trailers and commercials, so you know the drill. Ten foot tall blue folks don’t like it when humans invade and want to strip mine their world. Evil humans don’t care; they just ...
Men Who Stare at Goats
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews | 1 Comment »This movie has an all star cast that includes George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and one of my favorite character actors, Stephen Root. It was released November, 2009. I'm not big on going to movies for various reasons, but the ...
The Soloist
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews | No Comments »Movie Review by Sister Lorie The Soloist. Available on DVD, staring Jamie Foxx (Mr. Ayers) and Robert Downey Jr. (Mr. Lopez) The movie tells the tale, based on a true story, of a Los Angeles columnist looking for a story that finds a ...
Movie Review: 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews | No Comments »Movie Review by Sister Lorie 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819354/ Let’s just say I am somewhat fascinated by the Dalai Lama as a person and as a religious leader. To those of us that know little about Buddhism, he seems ...
3000 Miles to Graceland
Saturday, April 11th, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews | No Comments »2001 - Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courtney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollack, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz, Howie Long, Thomas Haden Church, David Kaye Link to 3000 Miles to Graceland on IMDB.com Normally I do not watch anything this violent. Normally I avoid ...
Oscars outsourced to India
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews | No Comments »With Slumdog Millionaire winning 8 Oscars, John Stewart of the Daily Show, quipped last night that they had been "outsourced to India". Hollywood watch out here comes Bollywood... Great movie though, well worth your time to go see.
Paradise Now
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews, Politics | No Comments »I had read or heard about this Arabic language movie, and I was very interested so I bought a copy. Just as an aside, I told a coworker and friend that I had purchased the film. He is Egyptian and ...
Slumdog Millionaire
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Posted in Movie Reviews | 5 Comments »As a movie critic I might not be your first choice. I venture to the cinema on average about once every two years at this point in my life. And I do not rent a lot of films, maybe a ...
