TRAVIS BYRAM'S MOVIE REVIEWS

Picture this wintery image to help you stay cool this summery day: 2012-era Travis going on to Crackle, the (legal!!!) free movie streaming site and picking Joe Cornish's amusing Attack the Block as a snow day diversion. The sci-fi comedy about South London teens experiencing an alien invasion was notoriously difficult for us Americans to comprehend, which led to the distributors pondering if they wanted to include subtitles. I think Warner Bros., the producer of Christopher Nolan's latest Dunkirk, should invest in captioning the war picture, because my inability to decipher at least 50% of what the soldiers in the film were saying diminished the enjoyability of the product. We start with...well, in all transparency, you won't remember any of the names of the soldiers in Dunkirk, so I'm employing IMDb to its fullest. I remember George because his name was said about 50 times in the movie, and once you'll see it you'll understand why. But we start off with Tomm...

When I was vacationing in Myrtle Beach for winter vacation, I saw a slew of critically acclaimed movies: "Young Adult" ( http://tito-ito.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-young-adult-r.html ), "War Horse," "The Muppets" and this film, "My Week with Marilyn."  It follows just what it promises: a third assistant director on "The Prince and I"'s week with the legendary Marilyn Monroe. People like Lindsay Lohan can say they're channeling Monroe when they pose naked with blonde hair all they want, Michelle Williams sincerely looks like it's the late actress on the screen again.  Totally by coincidence, I had watched with my family "Don't Bother to Knock," a thriller starring Monroe as a psycho babysitter.  After viewing the film, and watching "Some Like It Hot" a few months later, there is absolutely no denying Monroe's keen acting ability, or immense beauty.  Williams conveys all of that into her version ...