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2013 Oscars: Predictions, Thoughts, and Gripes
The Oscars were announced this morning with a few surprises, all major, and almost none of them good which left me with the larger question of why I even... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Impossible
In 2004, A British couple (Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor) and their three young sons take their Christmas holiday at a Thai resort (talk about timing! Read more
Posted on 09 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Zero Dark Thirty
Following the cataclysmic attacks on September 11, 2001, a covert CIA team operating out of undisclosed locations across the globe uses torture tactics in an... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Bergman Island
Early in the 1960s, art house master Ingmar Bergman discovered the island of Faro off the Swedish coast where he would film several of his classics ("Through a... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Recorded in late 1969 as part of the Let It Bleed tour, The Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya Ya's Out has gone on to be heralded as one of the great live albums. Read more
Posted on 04 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Mirror Mirror
"Mirror Mirror" is a retelling of the Brothers Grimm Snow White fairy tale, as told from the The Queen's perspective, which piqued my interest only for the... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
A police convoy led by a prosecuting attorney and carrying a murder suspect travels on a dark and ominous night in search of a victim killed in a drunken rage... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Mark and Jeremy (Steve Zissis and Mark Kelly) are two middle-aged brothers with a wounded relationship stemming from an Olympic style 25 event contest they... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Promised Land
A rising corporate executive (Matt Damon) and his travelling partner (Frances McDormand) travel from the big city to a rural Pennsylvania township to secure... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hyde Park on Hudson
Daisy (Laura Linney) was once accustomed\ to upper class flourishes but has now been reduced to more modest means, like so many others during the years of the... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Waitress
A young (Kerri Russell) buries the misery inflicted by her cruel and controlling husband (Jeremy Sisto) in the delectable pies she bakes which play like... Read more
Posted on 29 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's expansive 1862 novel, goes from decrepit ex-con, to reformed small town business magnate, and back to fugitive from the... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Gun Fight
Colin Goddard, survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre In the wake of the Virgina Tech shootings of 2007, where 32 lives were claimed by a sole gunman, Oscar... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain's indefatigably mischievous and timeless hero (played by a well cast Johnny Whitaker) receives musical treatment in this film where he tricks his... Read more
Posted on 26 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Miracle on 34th Street
When the Santa Claus slated to lead the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade reports for duty in a drunken stupor, a frantic Macy's executive (Maureen O'Hara) can't... Read more
Posted on 25 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Scrooge
The story is as well known as any ever told in any form: a despicable miser is visited by three ghosts, of past, present, and future, on Christmas Eve who compe... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Django Unchained
SPOILERS A German born gun for hire (Christoph Waltz), posturing as a travelling dentist, happens upon a slave transport in a wooded southern nightscape just a... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Meet Me in St. Louis
In the months leading up to the 1904 World's Fair, the members of the Smith family prepare for the momentous occasion while weathering the ebbs and flows of... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Shop Around the Corner
A top salesman (James Stewart) can't stand the upstart new hire (Margaret Sullivan) at his quaint little gift store in Budapest and pines for the embrace of... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Holiday Affair
When a toy store clerk (Robert Mitchum) at a large department store decides to give a pass to a fetching comparison shopper (Janet Leigh) and not report her to... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES