Hope Davis
The Matador
A Sundance Film Festival fave from last year, "The Matador" is an offbeat character study with a darkly comic wild streak that is extremely satisfying, mainly due to the superb acting talent of the two leads. Pierce Brosnan gives his finest [...]
The Weather Man
I didn't pay a lot of attention to "The Weather Man" when it originally hit theaters but when the DVD arrived a little while ago, I decided to give it a check-up nonetheless, and I am glad I did. It is a thoughtful and heartfelt movie about [...]
About Schmidt
He’s played the Joker, the Devil, a rebellious mental patient, a dipsomaniac astronaut and a homicidal writer. For the better part of the last three decades, mention Jack Nicholson and a slew of iconic images come to mind. Yet until last year’s [...]
Hearts In Atlantis
With a title as curious as its story, Anthony Hopkins stars as Ted Brautigan, a man with a mysterious past who wanders into the life and home of a young suburban kid named Bobby Garfield, played by Anton Yelchin. Ted takes residence in an upstairs loft in [...]
The Daytrippers
Imagine the Hope & Crosby ’Road’ pictures cross-pollinated with the Manhattan angst of Woody Allen and you have a beginning marker for ’The Daytrippers.’ Hope Davis plays Eliza D’Amico, a Long Island housewife whose life is turned upside [...]
Arlington Road
While the genre has been around for a long time, in my opinion it was "The Stepford Wives" that really defined suburban paranoia. That film made the audience realize that nice houses and manicured lawns could be hiding a very sinister evil. [...]