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Creative genius runs in the McDonagh family. Martin McDonagh, “In Bruges” and now brother Michael give unconventional slants  and interpretations on crime, criminals and law enforcement. The pairing of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, as intelligent hired assassins, hiding “In Bruges”  kept audiences on a titillating tightrope of anticipation and suspense for the entirety of the film. “The Guard” serves ... Read More »

Sports and movies; two genres that eliminate elitism. Regardless of gender, race, education, all are equals rooting for our favorite team, actor; every man’s /woman’s opinion is fraught with legitimacy, viability and intrinsically correct. That being said many of you found “Friends With Benefits” distasteful, stupid and trite; while others rained shimmering praise on the film. With respect for both ... Read More »

Dominic Cooper gives a ravishing, scintillating, stunning dual performance as Uday Hussein, the poster boy for evil incarnate and Latif Yahia the unfortunate lookalike who must “extinguish” his honorable character and impersonate Uday, at the devil’s whim. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Yahia. The portrayals are so gifted that never once do you confuse the two ... Read More »

Here is a film for the cerebral, metaphysical, scientific, amateur astronomers. A strange, wildly wonderful creation written by Mike Cahill and Brit Marling.  Marling, with a Helen of Troy countenance is “Rhoda”, a seventeen- year- old, celebrating her acceptance to M.I.T. when a collision irreparably, irretrievably alters her fate. Rhoda is bifurcated, wounded but searches,  sees and believes in another ... Read More »

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This film based on the book by Tatiana de Rosnay, starring the luminous, talented Kristin Scott Thomas should be seen, if only for its historical accuracy. On July 16, 1942 the French police rounded up 13,000 Jews, many from the Marais district in Paris; cramping them in suffocating conditions in an indoor bicycle -racing stadium (Velodrome d’Hiver), before transporting them ... Read More »

Rarely has a film/documentary left me more baffled or conflicted; vacillating between the revelations of Joyce McKinney, a femme fetal who supposedly stalked, kidnapped, manacled and raped her Mormon lover and the Tabloids who paint her as a nymphomaniac/nun. Errol Morris (“Fog of War”) allows the aging victim to aggrandize , emote blatantly throughout this 88 minute saga of the ... Read More »

Musical styles fade in and out of vogue: jazz, big bands of the 30’s and 40’s, rock and roll, rap, hip- hop. Electronics has changed the temperament of contemporary music. “A Tribe Called Quest” is an intriguing and in depth documentary by Michael Rapaport concentrating on the twenty year run of the ground breaking musical skills of Phife Dawg, Ali ... Read More »

The United States has millions of residents living illegally within its borders; you have had to be entombed not to realize the epidemic of concerns, both political and humane this has caused the government in recent years. Approximately 55% of illegal’s come from Mexico ( numbers vary between 6 and 7 million in residence at this time) a vast majority ... Read More »

This has been a lean summer movie season. In desperation, craving a darkened theatre, avoiding the sizzling heat, I ventured into the fantastical world of “Harry Potter” and was surprisingly entertained. I saw the first and now the last (think there are six others) of the enchanted boy’s tale written by the sensationally imaginative J.K. Rowling. I am a neophyte ... Read More »