Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are long time partners with two teenaged children by artificial insemination. When the biological father enters the picture, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re—defined, and re—re—defined. Here’s what the critics are saying:
“The movie we’ve been waiting for all year: a comedy that doesn’t take cheap shots, a drama that doesn’t manipulate, a movie of ideas that doesn’t preach. It’s a rich, layered, juicy film, with quiet revelations punctuated by big laughs.” Slate
“It is outrageously funny without ever exaggerating for comic effect, and heartbreaking with only minimal melodramatic embellishment.” The New York Times
“Movies like The Kids Are All Right — beautifully written, impeccably played, funny and randy and true — don’t come along very often.” Boston Globe
“The Kids Are All Right ranks with the most compelling portraits of an American marriage, regardless of sexuality, in film history.” Salon
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Harry Brown lets Michael Caine show us his action-hero side one more time in a film that Charles Bronson would have been proud to call his own. This British Death is about a lonely pensioner (Caine) whose wife is in a home. Harry is a man with a past, and when his best friend is killed, he decides to act.
The script takes us into the parallel world of a police detective (Emily Mortimer) just trying to fit in with the boys’ club that is her precinct. As in Death Wish, one cop suspects Harry, and that’s her. But her colleagues aren’t that interested when a lot of pretty awful crooks turn up dead.
Caine, however, is magnificent. This is not some laughable Stallone-boxing-at-60 exercise in vanity. He’s an old man playing an old man, but one who lived through experiences that both scarred him for life and prepared him for his final test. trailer
Starring John C. Riley, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill and Catherine Keener. With John’s social life at a standstill and his ex—wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcee finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life — her son. Written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, the iconoclastic filmmaking team behind Sundance Film Festival favorite THE PUFFY CHAIR, CYRUS takes an insightful and funny look at love and family in contemporary Los Angeles. trailer
Final days for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Ends Tuesday July 20
Summer Movie Classics for Wednesday July 21: The original 3-D movies from 1953: The Creature From the Black Lagoon and It Came From Outer Space. And you certainly won’t want to miss Episode 9 of Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Fighting the Fire Dragon when Aura has Flash drugged to make him lose his memory.
