TVJerry.com – Page 147 – Reviews and podcasts on film/TV/streaming

Eating My Words

Back East and tasting Richmond

Lack of Faith

“Faith Healer” fits, but does “Magic Flute” fit the ACTS OF FAITH festival?

fail!

The city’s coolest art show we’re pretty sure you didn’t see.

REVIEW: The Pride (Triangle Players)

A sometimes adult look at sex, love & longing from 2 different periods.

Spring Breakers (review)

Four chicks go to Fla for vaca and end up involved with a very funky gangster (James Franco with braids and gold teeth). There’s about

test

test again

Mental

There’s a family of 5 crazy girls…at least the girls think so. After their mom is sent away, dad hires a weirdo (Toni Collette) to

Gangster Squad

In 1949 Hollywood, a gangster from New York (Sean Penn) muscles his way into the West Coast crime syndicates. To bring him down, a renegade

Stand Up Guys

The film starts as Al Pacino gets out of prison after 28 years. He’s met by his best friend, Christopher Walken, and they spend one

Parker

Jason Statham plays himself: This time as a pro thief who gets double-crossed by his gang, causing him to seek revenge. It’s a pretty standard

Quartet

This year’s “Exotic Marigold Hotel” in so many ways: a group of (even more) elderly interact, look back at their lives and face the inevitable

Warm Bodies

A deadpan delight

Side Effects

Channing Tatum gets out of jail for insider trading and his loving wife (Rooney Mara) is having trouble with depression. Her shrink (Jude Law) recommends

Bullet to the Head

Walter Hill used to be a top action director and Sylvester Stallone was once an action hero. Both men have blown it with this lame

Identity Thief

Jason Bateman’s character has his identity stolen and sets out to bring the culprit (Melissa McCarthy) to justice. Their antagonistic road trip involves broad physical

Amour (review)

Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva play a Parisian couple in their 80s. When she has an attack, he nurses her thru the final agonizing days.

Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (review)

This film has been flying under the radar (only playing in Richmond at Criterion) and/or may be the target of a Charlie Sheen backlash. Either

Beautiful Creatures (review)

It’s opposite day in teen romance world: Instead of vampires, it’s witches (or Casters, as they call them). Instead of Portland, the deep South. Instead

Good Day to Die Hard (review)

Bruce Willis is back for the 5th time traveling to Russia, where ends up with him in a mighty battle over nuclear weapons with his

Masquerade (review)

Many years ago, a Korean ruler becomes mysteriously ill, so his leaders find a lowly look-alike to take his place. After some awkward false starts,

Dark Skies (review)

This is the worst alien invasion movie ever. Weird, unexplained things start happening to a family. Turns out they’re being tormented by beings from another

A Royal Affair (review)

This is based on the true story of a love triangle (King Christian VII, his queen and his doctor) and the changes they brought to

Jack Reacher (review)

This was going to be Tom Cruise’s new franchise, based more than a dozen popular novels. The obvious difference: in the books Reacher is 6’5″,

This Is 40 (review)

Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd (reprising the characters they created in “Knocked Up”) turn 40 and deal with complications in their marriage, family and careers.