notes from vivace

The Family Stone .  Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) brings his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), home for the holidays to ...

It was off to Silverlake Lounge to catch The Fontaines one more time before the end of their residency.  First up for me,  Low Volts .  This...

St. Vincent . Vincent (Bill Murray) is a gruff older man. He does have certain issues in life. He drinks a touch too much. He has a thin...

Time passes too quickly. Over a year and a half has passed since I last went to Pehrspace. I finally made it back and went big time, cat...

2 Guns . Bobby (Denzel Washington) and Stig (Mark Wahlberg) are criminal partners, attempting to make a massive cocaine purchase from drug ...

So I caught a number of movies this Fall/Winter. Here's my rankings, partially based on Oscar season: Oscar Worthy A Most Violent ...

Eastern Conference Champions . Yes!!! It was time for some Eastern Conference Champions.  I so hope that this band breaks out big time in t...

Wild.   Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) is dropped off at a cheap hotel in some random small town in California.  You get the impression she hitc...

Inherent Vice . As the movie started, I immediately came to the realization that this just wasn't the movie for me.  It is a drug induc...

The Hangover Part III . Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) escapes from a Thailand prison. At the same time, Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakis) is havin...

Bullet to the Head .  Essentially a b-movie action movie.  James Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) is a New Orleans hitman.  He and his partner ta...

Maybe it was due to the college football championship game that I watched before heading out to The Satellite, but I just couldn't help ...

If I had a vote for Oscar Best Picture nominations, here's my list of 10 movies I'd want to put on my ballot: 10.  Captain America...