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  • War Movie Mondays: ‘When Trumpets Fade’

    John Irvin’s (Hamburger Hill & The Dogs of War) 1998 HBO film When Trumpets Fade is an intense, brutally honest  look at front line combat at the closing end of World…

  • Review: ‘The Nutcracker in 3D’

    There have been worse movies than The Nutcracker in 3D. Certainly films made with less ambition, with less skilled actors and more modest sets and effects budgets. But it’s genuinely challenging…

  • Review: ‘Love and Other Drugs’

    Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is your average all-American boy: born and raised in Chicago to a wealthy family of doctors, super intelligent, and ultra charming to all the ladies. “This is…

  • Review: ‘Tangled’

    Rarely did I get to actually go to “The Movies” as a child. The family instead always went to what we called the “$1 show” at  the cinemaplex that showed movies that had…

  • Review: ‘127 Hours’

    When director Danny Boyle announced that he was going to take on the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, I thought he had gone crazy.  Boyle’s last film, Slumdog Millionaire, won…

  • War Movie Mondays: ‘Cromwell’

    This week’s pick is the 1970 British epic Cromwell which stars veteran actor Richard Harris as the man who led Parliamentary forces to victory during The English Civil War. The film…

  • Review: ‘Fair Game’

    In 2003, Valerie Plame looked the part of any successful working mother.  She ran a household, reared a set of twins, and had a typical office job. Or so it would…