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Baby Driver
Mostly mute and traumatized from a childhood accident with a preternatural ability for getaway driving and earbuds constantly playing an array of popular... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Crucible
Vendettas, paranoia, personal interests, and mass hysteria rule the day in colonial Salem when rumors of witchcraft start circulating the village with a young,... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Thief of Bagdad (1924 and 1940)
In the first of these two diverging tellings of the Arabian Nights tales, Douglas Fairbanks stars as a beggar and master pickpocket in the Bagdad bazar who... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Withnail & I
Two unemployed, drug addled, alcoholic actors (Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann), living in complete filth and squalor in a London flat in the late 60s retreat... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Double Life of Veronique
Two identical, unrelated women in Paris and Warsaw (both played by Irene Jacob) are nonetheless metaphysically bonded and, when one dies suddenly from a heart... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Quiet American (1958 and 2002)
A jaded British journalist (Michael Redgrave in the original, Michael Caine in the update) covers the French colonialists' war with the communists in 1950s... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Man with the Golden Gun
On his own private island buried deep in the seas of Red China, Francisco Scaramanga, the world's most deadly assassin with a just a rare birth mark, hunts the... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Beguiled
Well past the turning point of the Civil War, a gravely wounded Dublin born Union conscriptee (Colin Farrell) is discovered on the grounds of a largely... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Split
Three teen-aged girls are kidnapped from the parking lot of a restaurant and held captive by a man (James McAvoy) with dissociative identity disorder, 23... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
It Comes at Night
In a desolate modern world ravaged by plague and just following being forced to dispatch their infected patriarch, a family (Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, and... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
I, Daniel Blake
After suffering a heart attack on the job, a marginalized widowed carpenter (Dave Johns) attempts to maintain his dignity while being forced to jump through hoo... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Diary of a Country Priest
A young, unpracticed cleric (Claude Laydu), dogged by a stomach ailment which threatens his day-to-day duties, deals with indifference, contempt, and threats... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Secrets & Lies
A broken London family, including a well-to-do, people pleasing middle class photographer (Timothy Spall), his barren, melancholic wife (Phyllis Logan), his... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Great Santini
A decorated Marine fighter pilot (Robert Duvall) commands his family and his oldest son (Michael O'Keefe) in particular with the same fierceness and... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Get Out
Against his better judgement and the jocular warnings of a friend, a black photographer (Daniel Kaluuya) leaves the city and travels with his white girlfriend... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Edge
While vacationing at an Alaskan lodge during a photo shoot, a pragmatic, solitary billionaire (Anthony Hopkins)--with a steel trap mind when it comes to... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Gentleman's Agreement
A California journalist (Gregory Peck) heads to New York to write for a liberal digest and labors over how to approach his new assignment in exposing... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The 39 Steps
Shots ring out in a London Vaudevillian theater, an attempt to create a distraction by a female agent who finds herself in the flat of one the show’s attendees... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
20th Century Women
A product of the Depression Era, an older mother and single parent (Annette Bening) attempts to understand her punk influenced adolescent son (Lucas Jade Zumann... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Rules Don't Apply
One of the many starlets (Lily Collins) on Howard Hughes's payroll lives by the stringent rules accorded by the aging, shadowy, and eccentric billionaire (Warre... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES