Mistress America

When they leave to home and become freshmen at college many people feel out of place. Tracy enrolls in Barnard College in Manhattan but finds it difficult to make friends. She is rejected from the student writers’ society. For a few days she becomes friendly with a boy who is also rejected from the same [Read More]

Entourage

I watched every episode of the eight seasons of Entourage when it ran from 2004-11 HBO. It was fun entertainment, particularly for men, helping to get one’s mind away from the problems of the day and relax for half an hour. Four years after the popular show ended, the producers made a movie based on the [Read More]

Pitch Perfect 2

I did not even remember that I had seen the first film in this series. Now I know why. Just as the first installment of this fun film you forgot the details of the plot even while you are watching the film. But the singing is so beautiful and the humor is splendid. Watching the [Read More]

The Great Dictator

It would be interesting to learn about the reaction of moviegoers who saw the The Great Dictator when the film was first released in 1940. It was still five years before the Great Dictator, Hitler, took his own life with as the Russian army was approaching his underground bunker in Berlin. The world had not [Read More]

Argo

Argo chronicles an amazing rescue operation that the CIA orchestrated during the Iran hostage crisis. I don’t want to spoil the fun of watching this film and hence I do not want to reveal what marvelous ploy the CIA came up with to get a few diplomats out of Iran. The film starts with a [Read More]

The Internship

Google is one of the most desirable employers in the world. Getting a job there is not easy. When two middle aged watch salesmen lose their jobs and their prospects for a stable income, one of them comes up with the idea of applying for an internship at Google, which offers the chance of landing [Read More]

A Thousand Words

Eddie Murphy is one of most talented comic actors.  Unlike Ted which was fresh and made me laugh throughout the entire movie, 1000 Words has a few good scenes but remains pretty mediocre.  Murphy plays Jack, a high-flying literary agent, who is angry that his father abandoned the family when he was around 10. As image [Read More]