5 min movie guide

  • Joan Rivers : A Piece of Work

    Joan Rivers : A Piece of Work

    The opening shots of “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” are of an extreme close up of Joan’s face, without makeup first thing in the morning. This so succinctly sets the tone for this exhilarating bare-all movie that documents a roller-coaster year in the life of this comedic tour-de-force.  Joan allowed the filmmakers complete access…

  • THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

    This gentle warm delightful comedy is about a well-adjusted, happy, loving and quite devoted family.  The two teenage children have reached that awkward stage when they start questioning things, in this case, to find out who their biological father is.  It just so happens that their two parents are a lesbian couple, but that aside,…

  • EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

    This documentary is not what I thought it would be.  Billed as a work by Banksy, the infamous secretive British street artist, but the movie neither goes any way to divulging his identity, or revealing much at all about this over-hyped man who revels in the excesses of the notoriety that accompanies all his exploits. …

  • HOW DO YOU KNOW?

    At 3O years old Lisa is well past her prime, of being a world class softball player that is, and after getting dumped from the side she tries to play the love game instead.  First she teams up with Matty, a pro baseball player with a multimillion-dollar contract who happens to be a screwball womanizing…