Just a World Away

Favorite Movie of the Week Ordinary People (1980) Ordinary People is the directorial debut of Robert Redford, and won the Best Picture Oscar the year it came out. It is…

Favorite Movie of the Week The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a young man in New York City in the 50s, is struggling to get by on…

This week has been very much about binging – I’ve been reading only Michael J. Sullivan’s Riyria books, and I’ve been watching mostly Vin Diesel movies (The Fast and the…

Favorite Movie of the Week Captain Fantastic (2016) Disillusioned with the standard American lifestyle, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife Leslie have made the unusual choice of moving to…

Favorite Movie of the Week Interstellar (2014) I’ve seen this movie before (when it was in theaters), but I’m still counting it as a favorite movie of the week because…

Favorite Movies of the Week Koyaanisqatsi (1982) I was highly skeptical of this movie before I watched it because I’d never seen a non-narrative film before. How could a movie…

[Aug 7] “Howl’s Moving Castle” (2004) Timid hat maker Sophie is cursed to have the body of an old woman. In an effort to break the spell, she leaves home…

[Jul 31] “Everest” (2015) Everest is an ensemble movie based on the disastrous storm that struck several climbing expeditions on Mt. Everest in 1996. It primarily focuses on two commercial…

[Jul 24] “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007) After the events of The Bourne Supremacy, Jason Bourne is on the run and still trying to track down what’s going on with Treadstone…

[Jul 17] “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” (2005) Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) is a petty thief who accidentally stumbles into an audition to play a detective and gets flown to…