5 min movie guide
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Gone Girl
When the movie opens on a quiet July morning in a small Missouri town there is no visible indication we are looking at a man who has falling on hard times. It turns out that Nick Frost has been been virtually unemployed since being laid off from his job on a magazine in NY and…
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This Is Where I Leave You
The ‘leaving’ in the title of this rather frenetic comedy refers to death and divorce and a few other departures in between. Everybody in the Altman family has both issues and secrets and the set up for us (and them) to discover them all is when the patriarch dies and his widow (their mother) insists that…
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Life’s A Breeze
Despite the title, life hardly seems like a breeze for three generations of this Irish family who live hand to mouth in a Dublin suburb. The matriarch Nan is a bit of a hoarder so the rest of the family devise a plan to get her out of her House one day so that they can…
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My Old Lady
Mathias Gold thinks his luck has finally changed when he inherits an imposing apartment in the center of Paris from his late father who he was estranged from for decades. Approaching his 60’s, Mathias is a recovering alcoholic and after three failed marriages and three unpublished novels, he hasn’t a cent in the bank, and had…
