This ninth issue is printed on light blue paper and is 24 pages in length. It discusses the 9/11 attack, which occurred just a week before I went to press with this issue, the burgeoning of dancing in movies (a […]
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Volume 2 Issue 4 (Spring, 2001) $10
This eighth issue is printed on ivory paper and is 24 pages in length. It discusses why 2001 was a year of “event” movies, spotlights the science-fiction thriller The Andromeda Strain, profiles Judy Holliday and features an article on Pearl […]
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This seventh issue is printed on green paper and is 24 pages in length. It discusses movies about the Abominable Snowman, spotlights Cop Land and offers my thoughts on nineteen recent releases. Most of the issue focuses on the Academy Awards […]
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This sixth issue is printed on goldenrod paper and is 28 pages in length. It discusses quality in Hollywood moviemaking, the best movies of the 1990s, by year and as a complete decade. It profiles Grace Kelly, spotlights the Canadian […]
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This fifth issue is printed on white paper and is 20 pages in length. It discusses our move to New Jersey on the front cover, profiles William Hurt, examines political movies of the early 1960s, focuses on why 1969 was […]
Continue reading »Admission (2013) ☆ 1/2
Admission is a strange movie and difficult for me to evaluate. Its major strength is the look it provides into the world of college recruitment, with dedicated admission counselors (such as Tina Fey, Gloria Reuben and Wallace Shawn) evaluating and sometimes […]
Continue reading »Olympus Has Fallen (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
While I sincerely hope that nothing like what occurs in Olympus Has Fallen ever takes place on American soil, I must admit that I like movies like this, and I really, really like this one. Antoine Fuqua’s thriller is plausible, dramatic, […]
Continue reading »The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Magic (as it is performed) is a hard sell for me; I’ve never loved either the illusions themselves nor the showmanship required to distract the audience from perceiving those illusions. It is difficult for me to appreciate such trickery and […]
Continue reading »The Call (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
Since winning her Oscar way back in 2001 beautiful Halle Berry has made her share of turkeys (Catwoman, Perfect Stranger, Gothika, Movie 43, Catwoman, etc.), but The Call is not one of them. The Call is surprisingly realistic, suspenseful and even thrilling. […]
Continue reading »No (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆
One of the five Best Foreign Language entries for the 2012 Oscars is this Chilean political film directed by Pablo Larrain. No is a historical reenactment, using actual footage from the time period, of the 1988 political campaign to unseat the […]
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