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Expired
Why would someone want to be in a wheelchair? This is the central question asked, explored but perhaps not answered in this very spare.Read more |
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Tell No One
Wanted and desired...I’ll say. I’ve had a “thing” for Polanski ever since, while exploring my depressive, 19th century Thomas Hardy phase, I found Tess of the D’Urbevilles.Read more |
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A Previous Engagement
How can you not love this film, if you are a (gulp) middle of your life woman who just to-tally changed your life for the better a la Oprah? Read more
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Forbidden Kingdom
How can you possibly go wrong with Jackie Chan AND Jet Li? Oh and that’s what the producers are thinking... Read more
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Before The Rains
Ahhh so that’s why it looks so good...the Director, Santosh Sivan made his name as a Cinematographer on films like Bride and Prejudice, one of the umpteenth outings of Jane Austen recently Read more
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HATS OFF!
You sit down to watch this movie and all of sudden you’re being sucked into a fantasy world-- it’s Central Park going in and out of focus with that brrrring harp that signals magic Read more
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Roundtable Report: My first!
It’ll never be like this again so don’t worry! I finally went to my first “press junket” for Run, Fat Boy, Run Read more
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Snow Angels
I can’t honestly tell you not to go see this film, it’s one of those films that you really, really, really want to be outstanding. Adapted as well as directed by David Gordon Green from Stuart O’Nan’s novel of the same name, Snow Angels has a top drawer cast in a dark Read more
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The Boarding Gate
From the moment Sandra (Asia Argento) slinks, literally, into Miles’ (Michael Madsen) overly bright, glassed office somewhere in or near the not Eiffel Tower Paris we know he and perhaps we are in deep trouble. In this role, and others, Ms. Argento plays the kind of Read more
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Paranoid Park
I've always been a Gus Van Zant fan, I mean To Die For, Drugstore Cowboy, the sadly prophetic My Own Private Idaho. After all isn't it Gus we have to thank for the ascent of Ben and Matt in Good Will Hunting. Then there's that unfortunate Hitchcock "remake" and well...uh, never mind. It's 2008 and he's back in Portland and has directed a moody adaptation of a young adult novel by Blake Nelson. Read more
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The Hammer
So I had to quiz my husband about Adam Carolla because I missed the whole Man Show thing. I think it was sometime after AbFab became the last female-oriented show to leave Comedy Central...that is before the happily heralded return of Sarah Silverman. Read more
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The Signal
So it's New Year's Eve in Terminus and everyone's going crazy because their televisions have "disrupted the synaptic neural networks" as Clark (Scott Poythress), the designated tech geek explaner reminds us repeatedly. Just before the nightmare is unleashed, Maya (Anessa Ramsey) and Ben (Justin Welborn), the ostensible heroes, whisper sweet nothings to each other while designating her husband Lewis (AJ Bowen)as the villain of the piece. From then on we follow their meandering journey back toeach other. Read more |
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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
Wow...after suffering through that last...ahem...film, it was nothing but a pleasure to sit down and see what the members of the Academy nominated in the short feature category. Read more |
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