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• The Birth of a Nation

  

  D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, basically just a simple "North and South" story of two families serving in the Civil War and the effects of... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• East of Eden

  

  8/2/2010 Of the three roles James Dean starred in, East of Eden was the only one that was released during his lifetime, was one of the two he was posthumously... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Best of 2015

  

  Every year when I go to assemble this year end list I tell myself not to lament the current state of film (because I really did enjoy myself at the cinema this... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Hateful Eight

  

  A bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) travels Wyoming mountain territory by stage chained to a valuable and deadly quarry (Jennifer Jason Leigh) he treats as a... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Concussion

  

  Nigerian pathologist Bennett Omalu (Will Smith) prides himself both on striving to be an American and being as methodical and personable with the subjects on hi... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

  

  Following the triumph of the Republic and the Death of Darth Vader, the tide has turned back to the Dark Side. Now the newly arisen First Order, led by the... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Big Short

  

  A socially awkward, non practicing MD, and current investor (Christian Bale) foresees the housing crash and plunges his client's capital in betting against... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Trading Places

  

  An upstart (Dan Aykroyd) has everything in life a young blueblood could ask for: a managerial position at a brokerage firm, a Philadelphia town home, butler, a... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Fanny and Alexander

  

  A lively family of actors gather at their mothers on Christmas Eve for a night of drunken revelry. Soon, the eldest brother and troupe leader expires on stage... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Moscow on the Hudson

  

  A saxophone player bears the suppression of daily life in Moscow until the circus he works for tours in New York City and he finds himself making an unplanned... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Murder on the Orient Express

  

  A reviled industrialist (Richard Widmark) lies murdered in his sleeping car on the Orient Express leaving quite literally an entire train full of suspects... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Spotlight

  

  Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, which he authored with Josh Singer, is an involving, surgical, non-flashy, and thoughtful treatment of the Boston Globe's 2001 Pulitze... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Youth

  

  A morose, retired composer (Michael Caine) is vacationing at a Swedish spa with his daughter/personal assistant (Rachel Weisz) who has just been jilted by the... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Capturing the Friedmans

  

  In the late 1980s, the patriarch and youngest son of a respected middle class New York family are charged, arrested, and convicted of a series of odious,... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

  

  In 1903, after accepting a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco with associate Sewell Crocker and his pit bull to traverse the... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Citizenfour

  

  Laura Poitras’ acclaimed documentary Citizenfour, which is comprised of a series of interviews with highly paranoid Edward Snowden in his Hong Kong hotel room... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Temple Grandin

  

  A girl born with autism and signs of other severe mental defects is kept out of institutions as a child and sent to live on a ranch with her aunt (Catherine... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Rififi

  

  Following a five year prison sentence, a burglar is tempted to return to a life of crime, eventually succumbing to take part in a jewel heist where in its... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Macbeth

  

  The Bard's tragic tale of the ambitious, feeble minded, and ill-fated Scottish Thane has been told many times on film, often in exemplary productions. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Firemen's Ball

  

  Disaster strikes at every turn as a group of small town fireman ineptly prep for their annual gala. Milos Forman’s The Fireman’s Ball is a funny, sly critique o... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES