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Last Year at Marienbad
At a party at a French chateau, a woman referred to only as A is approached by a man known only as X who tries to convince her they met a year ago at another... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
House of Games
A successful, recently published, somewhat uptight Chicago psychiatrist (Lindsay Crouse) heads to the other side of tracks to confront a low-rent bookie (Joe... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Ride with the Devil
In Missouri territory during the Civil War, a Bushwacker (Tobey Maguire) and the rest of his band of Southern loyalists engage in brutal guerilla warfare agains... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Flying Circus and the Python Films
It is difficult to describe the appeal of Monty Python, the irreverent and game changing British comedic troupe, when their irreverent material is as often inan... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Body Heat
In the midst of a blistering Florida heat wave, a bored small time defense attorney (William Hurt) takes up with a sexy seductress (Kathleen Turner) and is... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
(spoilers herein) An arrogant cardsharp (Warren Beatty) opens a gambling joint in an upstart western mining city so young that it barely has the frames of its... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
War of the Worlds
On the evening of October, 30th 1938, a country frazzled by economic depression, impending war in Europe, and a series of national catastrophes was primed to... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Late Show
"When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it" A crabby private investigator (Art Carney), in bad health and barely taking in enough... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Way West/The West
In the mid-90s, PBS premiered two unremarkable documentaries on Westward Expansion, the first entitled The Way West by Ric Burns, the second simply called The... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Forbidden Planet
Several centuries into the future, a space crew is dispatched to a foreign planet to determine the fate of another unit that went missing two decades prior. Read more
Posted on 08 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Lore
Immediately following the close of World War II, the children of a once esteemed Nazi couple, led by their headstrong, eponymous daughter, embark on a vast... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
City Lights
After the dedication of a local monument chases him from his new resting place, the Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) stumbles upon a beautiful, blind flower girl... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Savages
Two struggling, intellectual, and nearly estranged siblings, an unpublished playwright (Laura Linney) in an affair with a married man and her older brother... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Monuments Men
In a prequel of sorts to the Oceans 11 series, a glib art historian (George Clooney) assembles an team of architects, artists, and museum directors (Matt... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Frenzy
A serial rapist/strangler has been terrorizing the women of London and the manhunt focuses on a cagey, alcoholic, unemployed ex-airman (Jon Finch), a perfect... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Atonement
On a hot summer day on an English country manor in the quiet days before World War II, a precocious girl (Saoirse Ronan followed by Romola Garai and Vanessa... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's fairy tale, which tells of a beautiful, kindhearted commoner (Josette Day) trading places with her imprisoned father held... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Wish You Were Here
Two sisters (Felicity Price and Teresa Palmer) vacationing in Cambodia, one with her husband (Joel Edgerton), the other with her new boyfriend (Antony Starr)... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Pete Seeger, who died earlier this week, was known as a walking repertoire of the American Songbook who added a few entries of his own and used this knowledge... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Now, Voyager
A homely woman (Bette Davis), controlled by her mother (Gladys Cooper) and desperate not to become an old maid, has a nervous breakdown and is placed in the car... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES