It’s only April and Kevin Costner has already starred in three movies this year. I’ve only seen one, however, which is his latest effort, Draft Day. No one is more closely associated with sports movies than Costner, and this project […]
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Noah (2014) ☆ ☆
We’ve all heard the legend of Noah and the Great Flood which wiped out the world so many years ago, saving only a handful of people and two of many animal species. This new movie, Noah, directed and co-written by […]
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Like The Hunger Games, Divergent is being established as a “young adult” futuristic science-fiction franchise centered around a likable young woman who has capabilities far beyond her own awareness. Both franchises begin with preposterous social systems as a basic premise, but […]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying, in his sixties, to re-establish himself as an action star after his stint in California politics. To his credit, he’s attaching himself to projects written and directed by good young filmmakers. However, the results have been […]
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Our eighth classic of 2014 is the first film adaptation of a famous play which dramatizes one of America’s most infamous court cases. That film (and play) is Inherit the Wind (1960). The distinction I am noting that the film dramatizes […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided for me from which to choose were these: Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Bullets or Ballots (1936) Inherit the Wind (1960) Mildred Pierce (1945) Too Many Husbands (1940) I chose […]
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Our seventh classic of 2014 is producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s epic retelling of the World War II D-Day invasion, The Longest Day. At the time it was made, this film was one of the most expensive productions ever put together, […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided for me from which to choose were these: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) How Green Was My Valley (1941) The Longest Day (1962) Rashomon (1950) The Sugarland Express (1974) […]
Continue reading »Non-Stop (2014) ☆ ☆
Setting a murder mystery on an airplane in flight is a neat premise — as long as it maintains suspense without sacrificing credibility. Non-Stop takes this premise and stretches it well past the breaking point by tossing in extortion, 20-minute death […]
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A decade ago writer-director Wes Anderson was considered a wunderkind, following the releases of Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). He has had cult success since then, with The Darjeeling Limited (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012), but he has yet […]
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