Sollars Point
24-year-old Keith (MacCaul Lombardi) may actually be out of jail after serving time for drug dealing but as he still has to wear a police monitoring ankle bracelet and live at home with his father, he feels that his punishment is not over yet. There is no real connection at all between him and his father Carol (Jim … Continue reading
SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS
And watching this movie certainly didn’t make it one of the better days. It’s a mash of three separate stores about a group of four struggling Portlanders whose lives are going nowhere, just like this film. These are disparate characters out of step with the rest of the world, but writer/ director Matt McCormick ensures … Continue reading
Some Kind Of Beautiful
There seems to be a tradition that when actors retire from being James Bond on the silver screen they still continue to play super-smooth devilishly handsome rogues who, although they may now be silver haired, they can still have younger beauties tripping over themselves to get into their beds and their hearts. Irishman Pierce Brosnan who … Continue reading
Some Kind of Heaven : Disney for Retirees
Documentarian Lance Oppenhiem’s debut feature film “Some Kind of Heaven” makes for entertaining viewing especially if you are not one of the several thousand residents of The Villages, the world’s largest retirement complex. Oppenheim turns us into voyeurs as he takes a close look at this “Disneyland for Retirees’ through the eyes of four … Continue reading
SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU
The thing I really loved the most about this movie was the title, which is actually a wonderful sentiment that I never really wanted to believe in, but now I am in my dotage I’ll admit has more than a smidgen of truth to it. James is the teenager who is at the receiving end … Continue reading