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Fellow Movie Lovers The global response to the Academy Award Contest was thrilling and kept me fully alert through, at times a tedious telecast. As the ballots dwindled with each awarded Oscar and the realization that my IRA was not threatened, I relaxed and thoroughly enjoyed the fever of anticipation. Here are the three that triumphed. Congratulations! Zach Overley Gerald ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers A PROPHET Defined by Webster as “a religious leader regarded as, or claiming to be, divinely inspired or one who predicts the future”. We recognize from the first scene who is the Prophet in training; another An Education. Living in a city that receives many films after they have been previewed in New York or Los Angeles ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers There has been an amazing response to the Academy Award Contest, with so many variables. If there is more than one winner the prize will be the same for each one of the victors: ten movies for two at the theatre of your choice. Your names will not be published unless the pleasure of gloating cannot be ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers “THE GHOST WRITER” This is a film that I can recommend for most audiences: actors, plot and intrigue are immensely satisfying; all beautifully filmed and directed by fugitive Roman Polanski. His travails have no prurient value and have not diminished the power of his direction; he is in top form in this tale of subterfuge, lies and ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers There is still time to enter the contest; March 5th is the last entry date. Please one ballot per person; this is not a political election! SHUTTER ISLAND Many of us have had a secret craving for an occasional horror/thriller flick. It is a phenomenon that I have never truly grasped; attraction, repulsion; the titillating effect of ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers So many of have asked for my Oscar predictions; always one to please, know I vote from the mind, not the heart. I do not award an Oscar because the actor has been nominated a myriad of times and never acknowledged, or that their days on the planet are numbered. With a clean slate every year, my ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers MY NAME IS KHAN After a nine day hiatus my withdrawal symptoms raging, I paid homage to my addiction by seeing three movies in two days…….not my record but impressive, considering all the unread mail. The first was From Paris With Love, mindlessly entertaining, if you are a John Travolta fan, which I am. You will not ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers THE LAST STATION With great expectations I have been desperately yearning for the opening of this film and joyously I can report that my desires were not only requited but surpassed my wildest anticipations!!!!!!! It is a tour de force at every level. Directed by Michael Hoffman based on the biographical 1990 novel by Jay Parini, it ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers NORTH FACE (NORDWAND)………………………Soon to be released. Do not miss this exhilarating, enervating, “fasten the seat belt” German film! It revolves around mountain climbers and their quest to conquer the unfathomable summit of the Eiger Mountain (in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland, 13.025 feet). This true saga occurs in July of 1936, three years into the diabolical reign of ... Read More »

Fellow Movie Lovers EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES Over thirty years ago a close friend of mine was diagnosed with scleroderma (a debilitating connective tissue disease that involves changes in the skin, blood vessels, muscles and internal organs); she was given approximately six years to live; the younger of her two sons was six months old. As I watched this, not extraordinary, but ... Read More »