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• The Best of 2013

  

  So, as summer turned to fall and the movie year seemed like it would fulfill its promise of disappointment, I anticipated this post and writing a snarky year en... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Inside Llewyn Davis

  

  In a Greenwich Village on the precipice of the early 60s folk revival, a struggling troubadour (Oscar Isaac) whose singing partner has just taken his own life... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• American Hustle

  

  A Laundromat owner (a balding, pot bellied Christian Bale), with a needy wife (Jennifer Lawrence) and son at home, and his insinuating partner (Amy Adams) have... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Departed

  

  Two members of the same graduating class of the Massachusetts State Police are thrown into a dog-eat-dog cat and mouse game, one (Leonardo DiCaprio) sent deep... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The General

  

  A southern engineer has two passions in life: his sweetheart and his prided eponymous train. Thoroughly dejected and humiliated after being spurned, first by th... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• No

  

  (spoilers ensue) In 1988, facing calls far and wide to remove Augusto Pinochet from office, the Chilean government held a country wide referendum with a yes or... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Gangs of New York

  

  In 1863 during the heart of the Civil War and with a major conscription act on the horizon, a young man (Leonardo DiCaprio) returns to the Five Points, a... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  

  An Air Force general (Sterling Hayden) has just flown off the handle and issues an aerial attack order on Russia, one which will surely result in global... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Kundun

  

  begins with the expansive search to find a child worthy of taking up the mantle of the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, and details his coming... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Philomena

  

  "Human interest tends to be a euphemism for stories about vulnerable, weak-minded, ignorant, people to fill up the pages of newspapers read by vulnerable,... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Casino

  

  The rise and fall of crackerjack handicapper Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro playing a character inspired by Lefty Rosenthal), as his acute abilities earn... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Bullitt

  

  A steely, hotshot detective (Steve McQueen) whose star is on the rise is tapped by a shrewd senator (Robert Vaughn) to protect a key witness before federal mob... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Phantom

  

  A veteran Russian submarine captain (Ed Harris), haunted by his larger than life father's shadow and a devastating incident in his past, is charged with a cover... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Bringing Out the Dead

  

  From Joe Connelly's novel drawing on real life experiences, Bringing Out the Dead offers a nightmarish glimpse into the life of a burned out paramedic... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Into the White

  

  A RAF aircraft shoots down a Luftwaffe fighter plane and is forced to crash land in the middle of the Norwegian wilderness. Both parties make their wake to the... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

  

  Like most of the great filmmakers of his and following generations, Martin Scorsese is a cineaste, himself boasting an encyclopedic, obsessive knowledge and dee... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Stoker

  

  In a set-up very similar to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, a disturbed young woman (Mia Wasikowska), who just lost her father and is also contending... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Nebraska

  

  Without access to a vehicle or assistance from his nagging wife (June Squibb), a confused, alcoholic, and irascible old man (Bruce Dern) is absolutely dead set... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Floating Weeds

  

  A traveling theater company visits a small seaside village as the troupe's leader attempts to reconnect with a former lover and his estranged, now grown son, al... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Martin Scorsese Directs

  

  was one of the early entries in PBS' American Masters series and was released in conjunction with the premiere of Goodfellas (the documentary features some grea... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES