“American Hustle” – film review (A-)

American Hustle is about 2 hours 18 minutes long. I’m very certain you’re going to love the first 2 hours 5 minutes. After that, well, opinions will differ. The film opens with the graphic “Some of this actually happened.” Although the film uses the term “Abscam,” the story is a very loose translation of the…

Silver Linings Playbook

Too many films are set in Philadelphia and Boston, usually for the wrong reason. Both cities have passion and character, but they also have fairly noticeable speech patterns. I suspect some actors want to play characters from those cities only to make the audience say, “Wow, what a great (Boston or Philadelphia) accent!” After about…