I got started on this edition nice and early, which I thought would afford me the opportunity to review a LOT of discs, which as you see, I did. But I…
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The most pleasure I have had in a cinema so far this year wasn’t at a film. In 2011, the New York Philharmonic produced a brief concert revival of Stephen…
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...no, not really. In fact I quite liked The Five Year Engagement (with big-headed Jason Segel and oft-deglammed Emily Blunt, as seen above), finding it among the more credible and engaging…
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And Brooklyn—he's at DeKalb Avenue above. I liked Statham's latest, Safe, okay, and here's why, for MSN Movies.
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Featuring Percy Kilbride and Dana Andrews. From Fallen Angel, Otto Preminger, 1945, shot by Joseph La Shelle. For The Self-Styled Siren, who wrote quite movingly about Darnell here.
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An English Catholic painter came to paint the Pope's portrait. Hadrian knew him for a vulgar and officious liar: detested him; and, at the first application, had refused to sit…
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