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Oldboy (2013)

Review by-Jarrett Leahy Of the many things the internet has had a noticeable impact on, the prevalence, acceptance and appreciation for foreign films by a wider American audience is pretty high up on that list. Through the help of websites like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes along with the plethora of movie blogs, popular and critically […]

Last Vegas (2013)

Review by-Jarrett Leahy Paddy (De Niro), Billy (Douglas), Archie (Freeman), and Sam (Kline) have been four lifelong friends since their childhood growing up in Brooklyn. When Billy, forever the bachelor, spontaneously proposes to his much younger girlfriend, “The Flatbush Four,” now in their sixties, decide to relive their youth with a Las Vegas bachelor party […]

Drinking Buddies (2013)

Review by-Jarrett Leahy Jake Johnson, best known for portraying Nick Miller on New Girl, and Olivia Wilde play Luke and Kate, co-workers at a small brewery in Chicago.  Though each is in a committed relationship with someone else,  Luke and Kate share a very playful and flirtatious friendship.  After meeting at one of the brewery […]

In A World…(2013)

Review by-Jarrett Leahy Carol is a struggling voice coach who is forever in the shadow of her father Sam, a legend in the cutthroat industry of commercial voice-over acting. To make matters worse, she is now being forced to crash at her sister and husband’s place when her father’s much younger girlfriend decides to move […]

Movie Hall of Fame-CLASS OF 2014!!

List by-Jarrett Leahy Of all the sections I’ve created for this site, my Movie Hall of Fame is without a doubt the one I am most excited about.  Like every film fan, I have certain films that stand head and shoulders above the rest, the films in my personal “private collection” that I revisit more […]