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Total Recall
At the end of the 21st Century due to nuclear warfare, the only livable regions of the planet Earth have been reduced to the British Isles and Australia, which... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Born to Be Wild
Two women, over 5,000 miles apart, adopt orphan animals and prepare them for reentry into the wild. In Borneo, Dr. Birute Galdikas looks after young orangutans... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENTERTAINMENT, ENVIRONMENT, MOVIES -
8 1/2
While lacking inspiration for his latest sci-fi picture an agitated movie director delves deep into memory and fantasy while fielding complaints from his wife,... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Total Recall
As a conglomerate wrestles of control of the Mars' atmosphere with the local population in a futuristic 21st century, a construction worker (Arnold... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
An Idiot Abroad
Series 1 Mostly for a lark, British comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant decided to send Karl Pilkington, mutual friend and cohost of their popular... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Culloden/The War Game
In the mid-60s, BBC filmmaker Peter Watkins crafted two unflinching documentary style recreations of war, one on the small scale of an 18th century battle and... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Jesse Owens
From Cleveland, Ohio, Jesse Owens was a track and field star who, following a successful career at The Ohio State University, went on to Olympic glory at... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Dream Team
For the Barcelona Summer Olympics in 1992 it was determined that the United States could enter NBA players for the first time resulting in what was to be... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2012 BASKETBALL, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SPORTS -
The Haunting
A mentally imbalanced young woman is invited to an east coast manor to accompany a pair of scientists and the heir of the estate in an attempt to determine the... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Bicycle Thief
Vittorio De Sica's 1948 classic film is both resounding and simple and a prime example of Italian Neorealism, a style of film set amongst the poor and made... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
In a salt mine under Hutchinson, Kansas lie the copies of over 4,500 episodes of The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson, placed there at the behest of the... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT -
Bottle Rocket
A highly organized neurotic (Owne Wilson) convinces his two friends (Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave) to rob a book store and then lam at an out of the way hotel i... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Hush Puppy, an irrepressible 6-year-old, and her widowed and sickly father, patrol the bayou for fish in a motorized truck bed which she refers to as the... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
All Quiet on the Western Front
A group of classmates are roused by an impassioned speech by their teacher about the glories of the fatherland, and set off to fight for their beloved Germany... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Secret World of Arrietty
A minuscule family of "Borrowers" live beneath the floorboards of a country home, where they take very basic and irrelevant scraps from the inhabitants by... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Dark Knight Rises
Okay. Where to begin? "The Dark Knight" would be a tough act for Christopher Nolan to follow and the final installment in his Batman trilogy isn't a... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Birdsong
A brooding young officer tersely leads his men in the trench warfare during the First Great War while he reflects on a doomed affair he undertook with the... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The English Patient
Reeling from the harrows of battle the loss of yet another one of her friends, a Canadian nurse stationed in Italy during World War II decides to remain behind... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Bound
An ex-convict and self-sufficient lesbian (Gina Gershon) secures a job renovating an apartment next door to a vicious, mid level mobester (Joe Pantoliano) and... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Here the title sufficiently sums up the plot: the clumsy, gangly, and kindly man takes his sabbatical in a French resort town where he wreaks havoc on the... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES