Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually has much to recommend it, despite a couple of storylines of questionable taste. The film is book-ended by scenes of arrivals and departures at London’s Heathrow Airport, as we hear a narrator state …
TITANIC (1997)
A boy from the lower class & an upper class girl fall in love on the ill-fated maiden cruise of the Titanic.
Phantom Thread (2017)
In London a self-centered determined bachelor dressmaker meets a woman as strong-willed as he.
Jackie (2016)
Natalie Portman is terrific as Jackie Kennedy. 5 stars. Click the image to read my entire review.
Captain Fantastic (2016)
Not entirely successful, but definitely unusual! Click on the image to read my entire review.
Hell or High Water (2016)
This is a 5-star movie with the return of Jeff Bridges as a tough Texas Ranger. Click the image to read my entire review.
Anomalisa (2015)
A motivational speaker is so alienated that all others seems to be one person until at a hotel he meets a woman who restores his spirit, but will it last?
Miss You Already (2015)
Two married female friends in London stand by each other when one undergoes chemo for cancer & the other wrestles with infertility and at last pregnancy.
Coming Home (2014)
A father imprisoned in China escapes & tries to contact his wife but their daughter betrays him. Years later he is freed, but his wife now has amnesia & thus does not recognize him.
May in the Summer (2013)
May returns from NYC to Amman to prepare for her marriage to an American Muslim professor, but her Christian mother is against it. Then she too has doubts.