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- LizFlix Reviews: A Mighty Heart
January 23, 2002: Daniel Pearl, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was abducted en route to an interview in Karachi, Pakistan during his post 911 investigation of terrorist shoe bomber Richard Reid. Despite a massive rescue effort, Pearl was beheaded by his captors. Soon after, his wife, Marianne Pearl, a French journalist [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Crazy Love
In the summer of 1959, the nation was shocked when twenty year old Linda Riss was attacked, blinded, and disfigured on the front steps of her home in the Bronx. The story became a sensation when it was discovered that the man behind the attack was Linda’s ex boyfriend, thirty two year old, married, New [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: The Secret Life of Words
The Secret Life of Words is writer/director Isabel Coixet’s solemnly captivating film about the raw and tender love between two people whose bodies have been assaulted and whose souls have been tortured and stripped bare. Hanna (Sarah Polley) is a young factory employee with a perfect track record, forced on holiday after coworkers complain she [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Pan’s Labyrinth
Pan’s Labyrinth, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a visually stunning take on the parallel between fairytales and the real world. A child of war torn Spain, Ivana Baquero stars as Ofelia, a little girl who has traveled with her sick and pregnant mother to live with Captain Vidal, head of the [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Waitress
I’ve an overwhelming desire to embrace complete bias in reviewing this movie. Waitress, after all, was the last creation of its writer/director, Adrienne Shelly, who was tragically murdered by a construction worker in her New York apartment during the making of the film. In resisting the temptation to alter my appraisal of Waitress, I’ll allow [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Once
Once is John Carney’s melancholy, modern-day love musical from the streets of Dublin, Ireland. The film stars Glen Hansard, lead singer of the Irish pop rock band, The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, the teenaged singer songwriter who released an album (The Swell Season) with Hansard in 2006. The eighty five minute film is simple enough [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: The Fountain
The Fountain was the first film I’d seen in a theater after being sick for a bit, so I was naturally quite upset when the credits started rolling and I had no idea what had just transpired.
Here’s what I got. There are three plots: past, present, and future, and Hugh Jackman is in all three [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Blades of Glory
I’ll tell you, I was more than a bit reluctant to see Blades of Glory. It’s a very personal matter really, but I think it’s easily understood and appreciated by just about anyone who’s ever loved a sport. As someone who’s figure skated herself for over a decade, someone who is still at least a [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Knocked Up
We loved Judd Apatow’s take on middle aged virginity, and he’s only done more to spice up his take on sex, love, and absurdity with Knocked Up, his feature flick about a one night stand that results in a lifelong deal. Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl stars as beautiful, successful Alison Scott, the twenty-something E! news [...]
