Great movies surface during awards season, but my cynical side also notes that actors often take roles that they believe or hope will surface during awards season to capture those very awards. Reese Witherspoon’s decision to make Wild seems to me […]
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I’ve liked the first two entrants in the “Hobbit” trilogy, more so than the three “Lord of the Rings” movies, but this third Hobbit movie — serving as the bridge between the two series — is disappointing to me because […]
Continue reading »Unbroken (2014) ☆ ☆ 1/2
The recent death of Louis Zamperini, the subject of Unbroken, adds a poignancy to its release that both enhances and undermines Angelina Jolie’s chronicle of his survival. On one hand, Unbroken, based on Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling account of Zamperini’s tremendous […]
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