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Blogging “Black Swan” (Part 2)

Part 1 is here. Picking up where we left off… • So Nina is about to enter her apartment, and there’s a brief shot out...

Blogging “Black Swan” (Part 1)

I had a ton of thoughts about Black Swan that I couldn’t include in my review of the film. Now that it’s out on...

Gotta Love Liz

Now that Elizabeth Taylor has died, there will be many tributes celebrating all the usual classics – National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, Cat...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Sucker Punch (PG-13) Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) writes and directs this fantasy-adventure saga about a mental patient (Emily Browning) who imagines her...

Jane Eyre: Viewer, I Married Him

A girl in petticoats and great distress runs across a fog-encrusted heath while lush orchestral music on the soundtrack speaks to the tumult in...

Charles Baker Changes Roles

“I refuse to live in L.A.,” Charles Baker said. It’s not something you’d expect to hear from a working actor with his sights set...

The Best Movies of 2000

I did a similar version of this post at the end of 2009, but forgot to do it at the end of 2010 and...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Lincoln Lawyer (R) Matthew McConaughey stars in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel as a defense attorney who tries to save...

Limitless: One Pill Makes You Smarter

The diabolically clever science-fiction film Limitless begins with Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper), a wannabe New York writer who’s been creatively blocked for several years....

Paul: Ancient Alien

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost go on a road trip with an alien: comedy gold, right? Well, close. Paul has a lot going for...