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  • Film Review: ‘Beastly’

    Teenaged girls are the only ones likely to care for this modern day retelling of Beauty and the Beast.  That’s your disclaimer.  For those of us who have discerning tastes, the…

  • Film Review: ‘The Adjustment Bureau’

    Matt Damon plays David Norris, a young politician who rose to prominence from “telling it is like it is” and now facing a lag in his career having lost his passion.…

  • Film Review: ‘Take Me Home Tonight’

    If Ferris Bueller’s Day Off got really drunk and fell into bed with Less Than Zero, their fetal-alcohol-syndrome-afflicted offspring might be Take Me Home Tonight, a movie that aims to be…

  • War Movie Mondays: ‘The Four Feathers’ (1939)

    This week’s pick is yet another African adventure. Zoltan Korda (Sahara) directs the 1939 version of The Four Feathers based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason, which is one of the…

  • Film Review: ‘Waste Land’

    Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, Lucy Walker’s film Waste Land follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he returns to his hometown of Sao Paolo for a project…

  • Film Review: ‘Hall Pass’

    “You get what you get, now don’t throw a fit”-Ancient kindergarten teacher proverb. I am constantly amused when people attend a Farrelly Brothers film and are SHOCKED to find out that…

  • Film Review: ‘Cedar Rapids’

    This little comedy  features a terrific ensemble cast anchored by the ever more endearing Ed Helms.  After his break-out performance in The Hangover, and a regular role on television’s The Office,…