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Sunset Blvd.
A jaded Hollywood hack screenwriter (William Holden), on the run from repo men looking to repossess his car, has a blow out and pulls into a garage of a... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
'The Butler' Movie Review
Posted on 20 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Blue Jasmine
Following a banking scandal involving her sleek husband (Alec Baldwin), a delusional ex-Park Avenue debutante (Cate Blanchett) restarts her life with her... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Silent Movie
A has been director (Mel Brooks) and his loyal assistants (Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman) devise the perfect plan to put his name back on the marquee: a silent... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Man with a Movie Camera
Shot in several Russian cities, Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera is an unabashedly experimental film with two goals in mind: to capture the day-to-day... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Me and Orson Welles
In 1937, an affable teenager (Zach Braff) ditches class, heads to the big city, and scores a minor role in the Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
High Anxiety
Following the suspicious death of its prior director, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks) takes up his mantle at the Institute for... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton's novella detailing the lives of impoverished, small-town Oklahoma "greasers" and their struggles with the sadistic, overprivileged "socs" is a... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Clear History
A bedraggled marketing executive (a long-haired, bearded Larry David) working for a smart car company on the cusp of global success decides to sell his shares... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) shooting an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a local architect (Eiji Okada) and the two sustain a lengthy... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
From One Second to the Next
is a 35 minute anti-texting public service announcement which I watched solely because it was crafted by Werner Herzog. The short plays like a master class in... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Kramer Vs. Kramer
A bored and depressed housewife (Meryl Streep) leaves her struggling yuppie ad executive husband (Dustin Hoffman) to tend to their young son (Justin Henry), onl... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
Born to Arkansan cotton farmers in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe would find her considerable voice in a traveling gospel choir, relocate to Chicago, and eventuall... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Last Play at Shea
In 1964, the newly founded New York Mets began their often miserable, occasionally joyous run at Shea Stadium in the same working class area of Queens where a... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
5 Broken Cameras
On a camera bought to film his newborn son, Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat also found it capturing the actions of Israelis settling in his small village,... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
'Elysium' Movie Review
In the mid-22nd Century, pollution and overcrowding have made the planet Earth no longer hospitable for rich white people, who now inhabit a utopian colony on... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
In 1960, Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird, her debut book and a contender for what could be the definitive American novel, detailing a young girl... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Ted
, the story of a grown man (Mark Wahlberg) trying finally to rid himself of his foul mouthed childhood companion (voice of Seth MacFarlane) after it... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
La Dolce Vita
A week in the life of an aimless and disaffected gossip columnist (Marcello Mastroianni) as he goes from story to story and woman to woman throughout a... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
To Die For
A beautiful, highly ambitious, and totally unscrupulous TV weatherwoman (Nicole Kidman) finds her career in standstill in small-town New Hampshire, which she... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES