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Baby Doll
A middle aged failed cotton farmer (Karl Malden) lives in his dilapidated plantation house with his flirtatious, childlike 19-year old wife (Carroll Baker), wit... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Where the Green Ants Dream
A geologist is sent to survey a desert area in hopes of finding uranium deposits but finds his work disrupted by the aboriginal people who find even his... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Late Spring/Early Summer
Before the poignant and sorrowful Tokyo Story, Ozu's first two entries a series of family centered dramas dubbed the Noriko trilogy (in reference to the same... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Blue Angel
After finding lewd photos of a local showgirl (Marlene Dietrich) in the possession of his students, a high school professor (Emil Jannings) travels to her... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Shoah
Claude Lanzmann’s lionized nine plus hour Holocaust documentary, famously crafted without a frame of historical stock footage, is haunting and powerful in selec... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
James White
After burying his estranged father , an educated, angry and aimless young man (Christopher Abbott), with desultory plans at a writing career, parties with his... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Idiocracy
An average schlub (Luke Wilson) is selected by the Pentagon to participate in a yearlong cryogenic freezing experiment where he is forgotten of course and... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Murder of a President
After unexpectedly winning a tight 1880 presidential campaign, James A. Garfield showed much promise in the job before being gunned down by an itinerant... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Conspiracy
Early winter, 1942, in a snowy, idyllic mountainside manor in Wanssee just outside of Berlin, the top Nazi brass, representing the major bureaus of the party,... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Amy
This profile on Amy Winehouse, an Oscar winner for Best Documentary, is watchable though not all that compelling and struck me as a particularly unremarkable... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Blade Runner
In a bleak and not too distant future, the Blade Runner unit of the LAPD is charged with tracking down and “retiring” rogue replicants, or highly intelligent... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Band Wagon
An aging, has-been dancer (Fred Astaire) signs on to star in a career reviving musical revue but must contend with an intimidating, leggy costar (Cyd... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Stardust Memories
A comic director (Woody Allen)travels oversees to promote his latest attempt at serious filmmaking at an international festival and is bombarded by... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
If....
A teen aged nonconformist (Malcolm McDowell) leads a rebellion against the callous, blue-blooded upperclassmen who unofficially supervise his boarding school. Read more
Posted on 12 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Marriage of Maria Braun
With Allied bombs landing in every direction, an outwardly naive young woman (Hanna Schygulla) marries a serviceman who rushes off to the front and his... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Straight Outta Compton
The story of how an aspiring teen aged DJ (Corey Hawkins) at a low rent Southern California club teamed up with his lyrically gifted friend (O'Shea Jackson, Jr. Read more
Posted on 10 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Summer of Sam
As David Berkowitz targets brunettes throughout the New York boroughs in the sweltering summer of ’77, a Bronx neighborhood is whipped into a frenzy and mob rul... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
After Dark, My Sweet
An imbalanced ex-boxer (Jason Patric) stumbles in a sleepy desert bar, is accosted by the bartender for no apparent reason, and comforted and then seduced by a... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Sully
In the days following his January 2009 daring and unconventional landing of a US Airways commercial flight on the Hudson River, Captain Chelsey “Sully”... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Wolf Hall
After his friend and mentor Cardinal Wolsey (Jonathan Pryce) is conspiratorially destroyed for failing to procure a divorce for Henry VIII (Damian Lewis), Thoma... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES