Movie summary by Michael The Moviegoer.
THE BOYS = ***
“Sibling Revelry”
The new documentary “The Boys” examines the life and career of the Oscar-winning songwriting brothers Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. It’s been put together by cousins Jeffrey C. Sherman & Gregory V. Sherman as sort of a theraputic experiment. Jeffrey and Gregory grew [...]
Movie Summary by Michael The Moviegoer.
THE BROTHERS BLOOM = ***1/2
“A Con-Artist Movie Made With Confidence”
I’ll never forget the first time I saw “The Sting”. At the end, I felt like I had been the victim of a con along with the characters. Ever since then, I’ve always loved movies that could fool me. Of course, [...]
Movie Summary of Adoration by Michael The Moviegoer.
ADORATION = **
“Delusions Of Terror”
Atom Egoyan is often drawn to stories about life after death. But not in the spiritual sense. He likes to examine the lives of those affected by tragic death. How they cope. How they move on. In his greatest work, 1997’s “The Sweet Hereafter”, [...]
Movie Summary of Angels & Demons by Michael The Moviegoer.
ANGELS & DEMONS = **
“Pope Fiction”
The opening scene in “Angels & Demons” involves a secret team of scientists trying to capture antimatter in a small battery-operated glass container. It looks more like the opening scene in “The China Syndrome” rather than what you might expect from [...]
Check out the movie summary of Ghost Of Girlfriends Past by Michael the Moviegoer.
GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST = ***
“A Kismet Carol”
Matthew McConaughey plays womanizing fashion photographer Connor Mead. His bed has seen more women than the Playboy mansion, yet he is as miserable, bitter and cynical as Ebenezer Scrooge. With this set-up, “Ghosts Of Girlfriends [...]
Find out the plot of Away We Go by reading the Movie Summary by Michael The Moviegoer.
AWAY WE GO = ***
“Rocky Road Trip”
Director Sam Mendes is a master at slice-of-suburban-life cinema. He followed his Oscar-winning “American Beauty” with last year’s “Revolutionary Road.” Now, with “Away We Go”, Mendes’ road-trip drama allows us to visit multiple [...]
Check out the movie summary of The Merry Gentleman by Michael The Moviegoer.
THE MERRY GENTLEMAN = ***
“There’s Something About Merry”
Michael Keaton makes an impressive artistic leap with his directorial debut “The Merry Gentleman”. The last thing I was expecting was to compare Keaton’s directing style to that of another actor-turned-director, Clint Eastwood.
Like Eastwood’s films, Keaton’s [...]