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The Red Badge of Courage
A Union Army private at an unnamed battle (supposedly inspiration for the story was drawn from the fighting at Chancellorsville) finds his grit and fortitude... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Age of Innocence
A high society attorney (Daniel Day-Lewis) is set to marry a woman of similar breeding (Winona Ryder) when he falls hard for her cousin (Michelle Pfeiffer), a... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Three bumbling country fed nincompoops led by the confounded rapscallion Ulysses Everett McGill escape from a Mississippi chain gang and brave hell and high... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Revisiting Steven Spielberg's venerated masterpiece once more, I hearkened back to the days when the networks actually showed movies during primetime on... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Zodiac
While the self-appointed Zodiac killer terrorizes residents in the Bay Area through random acts of manslaughter and cryptic messages sent for publication to... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
Known as a king of the Bs, Roger Corman has produced over 400 pictures with titles ranging from Dinocroc vs. Supergator to Bloodfist 2050. Read more
Posted on 26 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
North Dallas Forty
The life of a battered, aging, half crippled, pill addled, alcoholic pro wide receiver (Nick Nolte) as the trials he faces on the field pale in comparisons to... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
In a monastery situated in the middle of a lake deep in a vacant wilderness, a monk raises a young boy to take up his trade, and we are shown the evolution of... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Jfk
Watching along with a mortified country as the occurrences of November 22, 1963 unfold, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) develops a... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Dallas Buyers Club
Posted on 22 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Mount Rushmore
Overlooking a portion of the Blacks Hills of South Dakota, the sacred land of the Sioux, lies the sixty foot granite visages of George Washington, Thomas... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Cape Fear (1962 and 1991)
Adapted for the screen twice from John D. MacDonald's novel The Executioners, Cape Fear tells the story of a convicted rapist being released after a lengthy... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Wuthering Heights (1939 and 2012)
On the harsh and windy British Moorlands, a magnanimous estate keeper takes in a disheveled orphan who, as a stable boy, becomes the target of his son's sadism... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI
So I sat down to watch the initial Star Wars movies again and I don't think a synopsis of George Lucas' epic space saga is really necessary, so hear are my... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
War and Peace (1956 and 1967)
Probably the two biggest cinematic assemblies of Leo Tolstoy's mountainous novel, which detailed the interweaving lives of several Russian families during the... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Goodfellas
The rise and fall of Henry Hill, who spent his childhood in Little Italy idolizing the local two-bit hoods, rose in their rackets, and lived the live... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Rockefellers
John D. Rockefeller, the son of a traveling con artist and a devout mother, was a callous businessman with great disdain for his competition and the public. Read more
Posted on 15 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Blue is the Warmest Color
A complacent, melancholic literature student (Adele Exarchopoulos) finishing up her last year of high school meets a slightly older, and more assured aspiring... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
All is Lost
Following a collision on his sailboat with a shipping container in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a stranded elderly sailor (Robert Redford) must contend with... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
New York Stories
is a compendium of three short films from directors whose oeuvre has been largely defined by the megalopolis. Leading off is Martin Scorsese with Life Lessons... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES