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Movie Review: AMOUR
AMOUR Writer/Director: Michael Haneke Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert The opening scene reveals how the film will end, but there is never a moment of boredom or wandering thoughts throughout Michael Haneke’s latest film. Anne (Riva) and Georges (Trintignant) are retired music teachers. They are both in the eighties and live a simple…
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Movie Review: SIDE EFFECTS
SIDE EFFECTS Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw, Mamie Gummer Steven Soderbergh has tackled such diverse subjects as airborne viruses, male stripping, casino heists, and drug trafficking. In his latest, Side Effects, he and frequent screenwriter Scott Z. Burns tackle the world of pharmaceutical companies. Emily (Mara)…
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Movie Rewind: GREY GARDENS (1975)
GREY GARDENS Directors: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer Starring: Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Jerry Torre, Brooks Hyers In the current era of watching reality television when it seems normal to watch the lives of trashy people, drunk people, or rich snobby people, one would not bat a lash…
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Movie Review: ZERO DARK THIRTY
ZERO DARK THIRTY Director: Kathryn Bigelow Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Chris Pratt, Joel Edgerton “When you lie to me, I hurt you.” I always applaud movies that are based on actual historical events that still manage to keep you completely engrossed and on the edge of your seat. Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film…
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Movie Review: PROMISED LAND
PROMISED LAND Director: Gus Van Sant Starring: Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hal Holbrook I will be honest. I had never heard of the term “fracking” untilPromised Land came around. I am assuming that many people do not know what that term is. Fracking is the slang term for hydraulic fracturing which…
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Movie Review: THE SESSIONS
THE SESSIONS Director: Ben Lewin Starring: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, W. Earl Brown What is the difference between a sex surrogate and a prostitute? According to Cheryl Cohen-Greene (Hunt), prostitutes want your return business. Mark O’Brien (Hawkes) spends ninety percent of his day living in an iron lung. The rest…
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Movie Review: LES MISERABLES
LES MISERABLES Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter The big screen adaptation of the beloved musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg has finally made it to the big screen, and it has left the die-hard fans in an…
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Movie Review: THIS IS 40
THIS IS 40 Director/Writer: Judd Apatow Starring: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel, Megan Fox, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, Chris Dowd I will take a Paul Rudd movie any day of the week, especially in a script by David Wain or Judd Apatow. This is 40 is a sort of-sequel to Apatow’s previous movie, Knocked…
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Movie Review: JACK REACHER
JACK REACHER Director: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, David Oyelowo A sniper eyes various people through the scope of his rifle and lets off six shots killing five random targets in a plaza area. We see the face of our lone gunman. He is young, good looking, and has…
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Movie Review: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Director: Peter Jackson Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch Bilbo Baggins (Holm) has had an adventurous life as he tells Frodo (Elijah Wood). He decides to sit down and write about what happened to him sixty years ago. When he was…
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