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Highs, lows — and a graceful exit
It's my final column of the year and, for that matter, the new millennium — not to mention of all time. Unless it isn't. I'm so confused. Anyhow, let's look at the highs and lows of 2012 — not that you have much choice if you're going to...
Tags: Episodes (tv program), Mad Cow Theater, The Silence of the Lambs (movie), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (movie)
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3 Oscar-worthy performances
I'm pretty sure we can account for three of the best-male-actor nominees when the Academy Awards lists come out on Jan. 10. I've just seen a trio of excellent performances: Denzel Washington in "Flight," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" and John Hawkes in...Tags: Bernie (movie), Sparrow (music group), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Entertainment, Treme (tv program)
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Reel Critics: 'Dead Man' running in noir thriller
Director Niels Arden Oplev teamed up with forceful actress Noomi Rapace in the acclaimed original of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." They team up again for another tense crime thriller in "Dead Man Down." Colin Farrell joins them in this dark and...
Tags: Coney Island, Colin Farrell, Oz the Great and Powerful (movie), Dead Man Down (movie), James Franco
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Marriage In The Movies: A Look At Hollywood's Phantom Genre
The Hartford CourantJeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies,...Tags: Adultery, Wesleyan University, The Kids Are All Right (movie), Entertainment, Greta Garbo
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Reel Critics: 'Softly' could be harder
Writer-director Andrew Dominik created a hard-boiled gangster movie in "Killing Them Softly." It owes much to the work of the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino. It's filled with constant tension offset by the sort of cerebral dialogue and strange...
Tags: Theft, Pulp Fiction (movie), Hitchcock (movie), Janet Leigh, Brad Pitt
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Spirit Awards boost 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Silver Linings' momentum
David O. Russell's screwball comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" and Wes Anderson's coming-of-age romance "Moonrise Kingdom" led the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards with five nominations apiece, including feature, director and screenplay. The bounty...
Tags: Bernie (movie), Magic Mike (movie), Entertainment, Gold Standard Incorporated, Paul Thomas Anderson
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Reel Critics: 'Argo' holds audience hostage
It's a mark of great film-making when the retelling of history, with a known outcome, seizes us with suspense. Such is the case with "Argo," which had my heart racing within the first five minutes thanks to Ben Affleck's smart direction. It opens with...
Tags: Alan Arkin, Entertainment, Ben Affleck, U.S. Embassy, Argo (movie)
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Columnist Ken Blanchard: Use care when speaking
If you are entertained by politics, as I am, Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. Speaking to a largely African-American audience in Danville, Va., the vice president accused Mitt Romney of wanting to unchain Wall Street. He then said: They...Tags: Joe Biden, Entertainment, Paul Ryan, Slang, L. Douglas Wilder
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'Lockout'
Zap2ItSort of an "Escape From New York" in outer space, this action tale stars Guy Pearce ("Prometheus") as a government agent offered absolution from a conviction if he agrees to a dangerous assignment. He must rescue the president's daughter (Maggie Grace),...Tags: DVDs, Peter Stormare, Luc Besson, Maggie Grace, Lockout (movie)
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On Oscars: The best often don't win
On Sunday, Hollywood celebrates itself and honors its own. All eyes (or most of them anyway) will be on the presentations of the Academy Awards.
But do the Oscars always end up in the right hands? Opinions abound on this topic, and what follows is only...Tags: Singin' in the Rain (movie), Celebrities, Ingrid Bergman, Judgment at Nuremberg (movie), Human Interest
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Good cast ensures a pretty good time on 'Thin Ice' ✭✭ 1/2
There's something about the frozen Northern Plains, filled with folksy, trusting and righteous Dakotans, Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, that screams "insurance fraud" to screenwriters. The notion that there's nowhere in America quite so honest makes...Tags: Alan Arkin, Lea Thompson, Alzheimer's Disease, Cedar Rapids (movie), Entertainment
Dec 27, 2012
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Nov 27, 2012
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Aug 22, 2012
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Feb 24, 2012
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