20th Century Women (2016)
Mike Mills writes and directs this textured semi-autobiographical drama, set in Santa Barbara in 1979 after the women’s liberation movement and free love have made way for a bohemian existence for the laid-back seaside...
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The Boxtrolls (2014)
Alan Snow’s 2005 illustrated novel, “Here Be Monsters!”, provides the basis for this loose-hanging adaptation, set in the Victorian-era cobblestone city of Cheesebridge, where a community of cardboard box-wearing trolls lives underground. The peace-loving...
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
The formula isn’t hard to figure out: cute dog + cute kid = cute movie. It’s based on the young reader’s book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie may be...
Daddy Day Care (2003)
You begin to wonder how someone as immensely talented as Eddie Murphy would be pigeonholed into buddy movies and films like Daddy Day Care, essentially family fare. I suppose given the kinds of things he...