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13 September
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TWIN CITIES LIVE September 12, 2014         I have three new reviews for Twin Cities Live this week. Even though the summer blockbuster season is over and the fall movies haven’t started ramping up yet, there a couple of movies in theaters worth checking out. Plus, I’ve got a home release that is guaranteed to make you laugh. 1. THE DROP, Starring: Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace 2. THE TRIP TO ITALY, Starring: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon 3. JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK, Starring: Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers, Kathy Griffin Here’s the video: Video courtesy of Twin Cities Live/KSTPRead More →

12 September
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THE DROP Director: Michaël R. Roskam Starring: Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz How can you go wrong when James Gandolfini and Tom Hardy star in a Dennis Lehane story? Bob (Hardy) has an innocence about him despite the fact that he works at a Brooklyn bar known in the underworld for being a drop location as money is handed off to local Chechen gangsters. There is a whole system in place for the covert operation that goes unseen by the general bar clientele. He works for his cousin Marv (Gandolfini) who is fully aware of the operations that take placeRead More →

24 March
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ELAINE STRITCH SHOOT ME Director: Chiemi Karasawa Starring: Elaine Stritch, Rob Bowman, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, James Gandolfini, John Turturro There she is in her white button down shirt with black tights with no pants singing, “I’m Still Here” from Follies. It seems like the perfect song for her. Like every song Elaine Stritch sings, she makes it fit for her and where she is at in this moment of her life. Her rendition of “I Feel Pretty” is not like the one you grew up hearing. Legendary Broadway actress Elaine Stritch is not known for being a shy, private, or hidden person. Even atRead More →

04 October
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ENOUGH SAIDDirector: Nicole HolofcenerStarring: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Toni Collette, Catherine Keener, Ben Falcone So what happens when two iconic Emmy winning actors from two of my favorite television shows do a movie together? They prove, yet again, that they are more than just Tony Soprano and Elaine Benes. Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Eva, a divorced single mother working as a masseuse and looking for more in life. Her daughter is heading off to college soon, and she is determined to soak in as much mother-daughter time as she can. She attends a party with her friends Sarah (Collette) and Will (Falcone) and awkwardly mingles withRead More →