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American Sniper
Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a Texas rodeo rider with vague ambitions of being a cowboy, an ingrained sense of honor and justice, and a crack shot with a rifle... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
2015 Oscars: Predictions, Thoughts, and Gripes
This morning's announcement of the Academy Awards nominations left me as contented as I have ever felt upon hearing of the nominees, perhaps because 2014's... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Pride & Prejudice
Mrs. Bennett (Brenda Blethyn) is keen to marry off her five daughters before their estate transfers to a relative upon the death of Mr. Bennett (Donald... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Damsels in Distress
A trio of co-eds, led by the spirited Violet (Greta Gerwig), who run a suicide prevention group and aim to improve the general well-being of students at their... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Cinema Verite
In 1973 PBS released An American Family, a documentary series that followed the day-to-day ongoings of a middle class family which proved to be an early... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ken Burns profiles the celebrated and world renowned architect who revolutionized the form with designs ranging from Fallingwater, his home studio Taliesin,... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Inherent Vice
On the beaches of Los Angelas in the 1970s, part-time detective and full-time doper Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) receives a call from his ex (Katherine... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Decalogue
A woman learns that the man who raised her is not her birth father. A violent psychopath is put to death. A father bestows in his son to hold science over all... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Best of 2014
It has become trite to open these year-end roundups with gripes of the state of affairs in the film industry, still I think it needs to be said. Read more
Posted on 29 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Imitation Game
At the outset of World War II, the British government set out to assemble the finest cryptographic young minds in the country in a top secret effort to crack th... Read more
Posted on 26 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppet's update of Charles Dicken's classic holiday standard doesn't exactly do justice to particular elements of the well-worn story (although Michael Cain... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Foxcatcher
Despite the fact of both being gold medal winning wrestlers at the 1984 L.A. Olympics, Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) has always lived under the shadow of his... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Wild
In an effort to battle her demons and cleanse her soul following the death of her mother (Laura Dern) which predicated her foray into hard drug use and... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Annie
The spunky lovable redhead, popularized in a comic strip, musical, and movie returns for an urbanized update where the orphan (Quvenzhane Wallis) lives under th... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Theory of Everything
The life of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, beginning with his days as a student at Cambridge where he met his future wife Jane, who would stand by... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Whiplash
An overly ambitious jazz drummer (Miles Teller), currently enrolled in the top conservatory in the country and with visions of becoming one of the greats at... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Homesman
A homely, self-sufficient frontierswoman (Hilary Swank), personally seeing over her claim in Nebraska Territory and becoming increasingly distressed at her blea... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Birdman
A has been movie mega-star (Michael Keaton), haunted by the spirit of his onscreen superhero alter ego, is mounting a comeback in the form of a theatrical... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Interstellar
As a modern day Dust Bowl threatens to starve and suffocate the human race, an ex-fighter pilot, first-rate engineer, and discontented farmer (Matthew... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Ruling Class
Following the unfortunate role-playing related death of a prominent British Lord, his considerate estate is passed to his mentally disturbed progeny (Peter... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES