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Tag Archives: Fair Game
This Week’s Movies to See Right Now
Potiche opens this week, and this delightful French farce of feminist self-discovery is the funniest movie in over a year, and another showcase for Catherine DeNeuve (as if she needs one). The Music Never Stopped is a crowd-pleaser, especially for … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: Fair Game
Ripped from the headlines, this is the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson story with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. We already knew the story of Joe Wilson exposing the Bush Administration’s false WMD pretext for the Iraq war, and the White House … Continue reading
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Tagged Fair Game, Joe Wilson, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Valerie Plame
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This Week’s Movies To See Right Now
There are more excellent movies in the theaters RIGHT NOW than any other time of the year. Right now, you can see Another Year, True Grit, The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Way Back, Somewhere, Biutiful, The Fighter, Rabbit Hole … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Year, Bad Day at Black Rock, Biutiful, Black Swan, Fair Game, Five Easy Pieces, I Love You Phillip Morris, Little Big Man, Marty The Wild Bunch, Movies, Rabbit Hole, Somewhere, The Dirty Dozen, The Fighter, The Last Detail, The Trip, The Way Back, True Grit
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Updated Movies to See Right Now
Now is the time to catch future Oscar contenders on the big screen, especially crowd pleasers like True Grit, The King’s Speech and Black Swan. True Grit is the Coen Brothers’ splendid Old West story of Mattie Ross, a girl … Continue reading
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Tagged Biutiful, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, D.O.A., Fair Game, Hannah and Her Sisters, I Love You Phillip Morris, Inception, Inside Job, Jason and the Argonauts, movie recommendations, Movies, Night of the Lepus, Rabbit Hole, Red Hill, Season of the Witch, Somewhere, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Naked Kiss, The Shop Around the Corner, The Social Network, The Way Back, True Grit
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Movies to See Right Now
Now is the time to catch future Oscar contenders on the big screen, especially crowd pleasers like True Grit, The King’s Speech and Black Swan. True Grit is the Coen Brothers’ splendid Old West story of Mattie Ross, a girl … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Angry Men, Black Swan, Fair Game, Glory, I Love You Phillip Morris, I Want to Live, In the Name of the Father, Inside Job, Love and Other Drugs, movie recommendations, Movies, Rabbit Hole, Red Hill, Season of the Witch, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Producers, The Social Network, The Third Man, True Grit
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The New Year’s Movies To See Right Now
Don’t miss the great movies released during the Holidays. This is the time of year that I live for – lots of great choices in the theater, especially crowd pleasers like True Grit, The King’s Speech and Black Swan. True … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Year, Black Swan, Fair Game, movie recommendations, Movies
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2010 in Movies: The Year’s Best Movies
Here’s my list of the best films of 2010: 1) Winter’s Bone; 2) Toy Story 3; 3) The Social Network; 4) The Secrets in their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos); 5) Rabbit Hole; 6) Black Swan; 7) A Prophet … Continue reading
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Tagged A Prophet, Ajami, Another Year, Best Movies of 2010, Black Swan, Carlos, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Fair Game, Fish Tank, Hereafter, Inception, Inside Job, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, La fille du RER, Mademoiselle Chambon, movie recommendations, Movies, Rabbit Hole, Solitary Man, Sweetgrass, The Fighter, The Ghost Writer, The Girl on the Train, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The King's Speech, The Secrets in their Eyes, The Social Network, The Tillman Story, top ten movies, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Un Prophete, Winter’s Bone
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2010 in Movies: The Year of the True Stories
Ripped from the headline! Based on true events! 2010 featured an unusual number of movies based on real people and events, including two of the year’s very best – The Social Network and The King’s Speech. But there were also … Continue reading
Updated Movies To See Right Now
It’s the Holidays – this is your best chance to see a few excellent films. I strongly recommend Rabbit Hole, an exquisite exploration of the grieving process with great performances by Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhardt, Diane Wiest, Sandra Oh and … Continue reading
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Tagged A Prophet, Ajami, Another Year, Biutiful, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Casino Jack, Fair Game, I Love You Phillip Morris, Inception, Inside Job, Kings of Pastry, Love and Other Drugs, Mademoiselle Chambon, Morning Glory, movie recommendations, Movies, Rabbit Hole, The Fighter, The Ghost Writer, The Girl on the Train, The Secrets in their Eyes, The Social Network, The Way Back, Toy Story 3, Winter's Bone
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2010 in Movies: The Year of Adult Relationships
This was the most welcome trend of 2010 – movies that centered on relationships between mature adults. Hollywood tends to avoid such movies because teen audiences prefer not to imagine that their parents’ peers have thoughts of love and lust … Continue reading
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