I have to admit that Martin Scorsese — considered by many to be one of the greatest directors of the past quarter-century — has never been one of my personal favorites. I generally like his movies, but I rarely love […]

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Although I have enjoyed and given good reviews to a couple of the Twilight films in recent years, I was bored by Breaking Dawn, Part 1.  It is so slowly paced, with so little significant action or plot development, that I […]

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Though I have no way to support this thesis, I believe that most people, especially younger audiences, are aware of Marilyn Monroe primarily through her fame — and have never seen her movies.  Other than Some Like it Hot, and […]

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This low-key feature, set in Hawaii, is a fairly rich character study.  George Clooney stars as a businessman whose wife has had a boating accident and lies in a coma. His young daughters are too much for him to handle […]

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Caper movies have been popular for better than half a century now, and show no sign of slowing down.  Sooner or later virtually everyone in Hollywood makes one.  Caper movies are (supposed to be) fun, clever spits-in-the-eye to authority groups […]

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Few Americans have led lives as influential or controversial as the longtime director of the F.B.I, J. Edgar Hoover.  Why is it then that no one can seem to make a decent movie about the man? Clint Eastwood is the […]

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I enjoyed but never loved the Shrek films, and my favorite characters were the supporting ones used for comic relief: Donkey, and Puss in Boots.  I think it’s great that Puss gets his own movie.  The more cat movies the better, […]

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Was Shakespeare a fraud?  That is the tagline for Roland Emmerich’s new drama Anonymous, which supports the theory that Edward De Vere was really the genius known as “William Shakespeare.”  The truth will probably never be known, as it has […]

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From Andrew Niccol (writer of The Truman Show, writer-director of Gattaca, S1mOne and Lord of War) comes another high-concept film, this one involving time and the aging process.  In Time presents a future where people stop aging at 25, but can only […]

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While this is yet another unnecessary remake, it is fairly engrossing and effective, partly because it recycles many of the songs from the original.  This time around, Kenny Wormald plays the youngster who can’t believe that a town would outlaw […]

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