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• The Fallen Idol

  

  A diplomat's young son has the run of the entire embassy, with only a jovial butler and his shrewish, maid wife to keep an eye on him. Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dancer in the Dark

  

  A single mother (Bjork) in 1964 Washington rapidly losing her vision saves every penny earned at her factory job, which she barely hangs on to thanks to the hel... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Stranger Than Paradise

  

  A bohemian layabout and part-time conman (John Lurie) receives an uninvited visitor at his New York apartment in the form of his Hungarian cousin (Eszter Balint... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Empire of the Sun

  

  A resourceful British boy (Christian Bale) living with his family in Shanghai at the start of World War II, becomes separated from his family during the Japanes... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Chicago

  

  After catching the lively Bob Fosse/Kander and Ebb musical when it visited town two weeks ago, I was again taken by the dazzling production and infectious... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Stories We Tell

  

  A highly personal documentary from actress (Dawn of the Dead, The Sweet Hereafter) and director (Away from Her, Take This Waltz) Sarah Polley who, through home... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• August, Osage County

  

  A morose writer (Sam Shepherd) living with his cancer ridden, pill addled, vigorous wife (Meryl Streep) leaves her in the care of a Native American aide (Misty... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Barbara

  

  A beautiful, dedicated, talented, and somewhat harsh physician (Nina Hess) is relocated from East Berlin to a small pastoral town and kept under constant... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Letter

  

  In the stultifying heat, outside of her husband's Malayan rubber plantation home, a woman (Bette Davis) guns down her lover in a fit of blind rage. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Kill Bill (vols. 1 & 2)

  

  After butchering her wedding party and leaving her inexplicably clinging to life, The Bride (Uma Thurman) seeks revenge on the colorful and treacherous members... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Square

  

  Up close and personal coverage from Cairo's Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian Revolution that began with the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak i... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• On the Road

  

  After spanning a sizable portion of South America in The Motorcycle Diaries, director Walter Salles covers a good chunk of its neighboring continent to the nort... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 2013 Oscars: Predictions, Thoughts, and Gripes

  

  Well Chuck Berry said it best when he intoned "it goes to show you never can tell" and that is especially true about this morning's Oscar nominations. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• La Grande Illusion

  

  Two French airmen, one a nobleman (Pierre Fresnay), the other from working class roots (Jean Gabin), are shot down by a mannerly officer (Erich von Stroheim) wh... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Breaking and Entering

  

  While personally investigating a string of break-ins at his new office building in Kings Cross, a site chosen in hopes of stirring urban renewal, an architect... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mary Poppins

  

  After recently watching the flawed but generally enjoyable Saving Mr. Banks, which tells the story of Walt Disney's courting of the prickly P.L. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Play Misty for Me

  

  The DJ (Clint Eastwood) of a coastal California radio station receives the title tune request from the same caller on a regular basis during his nightly slow... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Chicago

  

  Last night, I traveled with friends to The Palace Theater to see Chicago, the long running Broadway musical billed as "a story of murder, greed, corruption,... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Spring Breakers/This is the End

  

  After months of stubbornly avoiding Spring Breakers and This is the End, two films made by a handful of wearisome and self-indulgent film personalities, I... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Her

  

  An introverted, overly sensitive professional letter writer (Joaquin Phoenix), constantly attached to his mobile device and still reeling from his divorce,... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES