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Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
Towards the latter part of the 1960s The Beatles had broken up, The Rolling Stones were no longer making music, and people were generally tired and weary from... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Angels & Demons
Following the lukewarm response to The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are back with Angels Demons, a prequel that likewise dwells in mediocrity.... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Cary Grant was an inimitable leading man, bringing grace, humor, talent, and class to the big screen. Cary Grant: A Class Apart offers a humanistic portrait of... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Cars
For someone who doesn't know a Buick from a Benz, I was expected to be totally bored with Cars, a film that definitely holds a high appeal for auto... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
"ESPN's 30 for 30" The Best That Never Was
In 1964, the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi was a hotbed of racial strife as it was the location where the three civil rights workers from up north wer... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Iron Giant
In 1957 small town Maine, a mischievous and lonely boy is playing in the restaurant where his single mother works. He overhears the town cook being mocked for... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Gates of Heaven
Errol Morris has made a career out of documenting eccentrics, and it all began with this little film in 1978. Here Morris interviews people who are involved wit... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Walking Dead-Season 1
Zombies have had a staying power in the movies for awhile now, and I never understood why. So when I checked out The Walking Dead only because of AMC's... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Inside Job
Inside Job is the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary that traces the roots of the global economic crisis that we face today. It is a maddening film... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Mother and Child
tells the story of three women with the topic of adoption being the common thread that ties the stories together: A physical therapist in her early 50s... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Infernal Affairs
Before Matt and Leo were moles playing cat and mouse games in dark movie theaters and abandoned rooftops in Boston, Andy Lau and Tony Leung played a similar gam... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Days of Heaven
Terence Malick's career as a director spans almost 40 years during which he has made a mere five films (which includes the upcoming Tree of Life). Read more
Posted on 10 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Four Lions
is a madcap romp about a group of bumbling jihadists living in Britain trying to pick a target for a terrorist attack. Lacking any form of sense or... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Easy A
Easy A is a reworking of The Scarlet Letter with the story now being set in a modern day California high school. Our heroine is Olive, a smart and straight edge... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
"ESPN's 30 for 30" Once Brothers
In the late 80s, a group of friends from Yugoslavia on the national basketball team, a mixture of Croatians and Serbians, journeyed to America to take part in... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Love and Other Drugs
It is 1996 and an intelligent, out of work, and underachieving Lothario goes to work as a pharmaceutical salesman, a job which he struggles at initially. Then h... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Jane Eyre
is the often filmed enduring classic from Charlotte Bronte, and a work that I have never read nor seen. With that being said, the new film being released this... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Win Win
Thomas McCarthy is a writer/director who specializes in making films about people coming out of their shells and getting in touch with their humanity: In The... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Repulsion
After the success of his debut film Knife in the Water, Roman Polanski set out to direct his first English language film which he also cowrote, a disturbing... Read more
Posted on 06 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen has been making a movie a year for over 35 years, many of them classics, so when his work doesn't quite live of to those standards, it seems as if... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES