Helen Hunt

The Sessions Review

The Sessions Review

RATING: (3 STARS) There’s a monologue just past the halfway point of Ben Lewin’s The Sessions that’s so lovingly written it could bring a tear to your eye. It isn’t a thoughtful poem (though the film has plenty of those) but more of a love letter—a love letter to sex. It seems like Mark O’Brien […]

The 2013 Oscar Nominees

The 2013 Oscar Nominees

It wasn’t Lincoln‘s field-topping twelve nominations nor Silver Linings Playbook‘s sudden ascension from “happy to be nominated” to “genuine Best Picture threat” that dominated headlines today. 

No, it was the genuinely stunning absence of Argo‘s Ben Affleck and Zero Dark Thirty‘s Kathryn Bigelow from the Academy’s eclectic Best Director lineup that rocked Oscar watchers’ world. […]

As Good as It Gets Review

As Good as It Gets Review

RATING: (3.5 STARS) “As Good As It Gets” is kind of like a romantic comedy in reverse. Most films in this genre follow a strict formula, and while this is no different in that respect, the formula itself is turned upside-down. You know in most romantic comedies that moment in which all the characters’ feelings […]