Daily Archives: February 27, 2013

Nicole Kidman IS “Grace of Monaco”

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Roger Moore

A Weinstein Co. release, this 2014 film co-stars Tim Roth as Prince Ranier and purports to cover their romance and lives into the early 60s in the principality of Monaco. Hitchcock, Maria Callas and Onassis also figure in the film, … Continue reading →

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Today’s next screening: “Greedy, Lying Bastards”

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Roger Moore

It’s about global warming deniers. No, not the rubes who only recently realized that whatever Fox News was serving up on the subject was utter bull and saw the light — after their house was washed away by Sandy, burnt … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Gael Garcia Bernal teaches Chileans “We are the World” in “No”

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Roger Moore

Here’s a fascinating piece of history that escaped much of the world’s notice, when it happened back in 1988. That’s the year that international pressure finally caused the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet to hold an election in Chile, the … Continue reading →

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Kristin Chenoweth gets an Oscar bump?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Roger Moore

The diminutive Broadway/TV star Kristin Chenoweth was full of love for EVERYbody on the red carpet Oscar night, anchoring the red carpet “Who are you wearing?” silliness, looking way up at pretty much every star she waved a microphone at. … Continue reading →

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Did the Weinsteins wreck “Planet Earth”?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Roger Moore

That was the allegation of a lawsuit filed by those who put the film into production, a suit they filed a year before the film — rewritten and reshot to death — a year before it went into release. Brian … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Jack the Giant Slayer

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Roger Moore

One thing this current run of blockbuster fairy tales inspired by Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” has taught us is how very hard it is to be Tim Burton. Multiple versions of “Snow White,” a comic spatter film “Hansel & … Continue reading →

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