Shoot the Glass

Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a cheerful kind of person. Insanely cheerful. Nothing can get Poppy down. She goes through life with a smile on her lips and open arms.
Before seeing this movie, I had heard that some people find Poppy annoying. Being a rather cynical person myself, I was worried I would too. I needn’t [...]

Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) is dying. He abandons his old life and moves into a house in the street where he grew up. He eats only pizza and donuts, and drinks vodka. Lots and lots of vodka.
One day, his nosy neighbour Esperanza (Adriana Barraza) discovers a water stain on the side of Henry’s house which [...]

The Brothers Bloom is Rian Johnson’s follow-up to 2005’s brilliant high school noir Brick. Personally, I couldn’t wait to see what Johnson would do next. What he has done is take on the conman subgenre, and weaved it into a rich and very entertaining romp about two brothers.
The movie is about Bloom (Adrien Brody) and [...]

Harold (Bud Cort) is young, privileged, and obsessed with death. He frequents funerals of people he doesn’t know, and stages mock suicides to his mother’s great annoyance. He has no friends. At a funeral he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Maude, unlike Harold, is full of life, [...]

This was the most entertaining movie I’ve seen in a while. It’s a classic British film by Ealing Studios, and I liked it better even than The Ladykillers.
It tells the story of a man called Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), whose mother belonged to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but was shunned after she married an Italian [...]