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Movie Review: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them”
Serenely melancholy but unfailingly melodramatic, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” is a tone poem to love and loss that goes on too long and is more intent on creating a sad mood than with breaking your heart or bringing you … Continue reading
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Bill Hader talks about being a “Skeleton Twin.”
Regarding his new film, “The Skeleton Twins,” Bill Hader is the first to admit “I don’t get offered guys this serious or complex.” The 36 year-old Tulsa native has been known for comedy — pretty much exclusively — thanks … Continue reading
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Next Screening: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”
The US version of this romance is one film, not two, a love story told from two different points of view. But in festivals, in Europe, they got “Her” and “Him” versions of the tale. Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “I Am Eleven” goes where better, more focused films have gone before
It took Australian journalist/filmmaker Genevieve Bailey six years of travel to 15 different countries, from Thailand to the U.S., Sweden to Morocco, to film “I Am Eleven,” her documentary about the state of eleven-year-olds the world over. She wasn’t wasting … Continue reading
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Catching up with Cozi and Nathan, Winter’s Pals, for “Dolphin Tale 2”
It had been three long years since Nathan Gamble and Cozi Duehlsdorff, the two kids who befriended Winter the injured dolphin, made “Dolphin Tale” with the world’s first dolphin with a prosthetic tail. Would Winter remember them for the sequel? … Continue reading
Movie Review: Maggie Smith shines with Kline as “My Old Lady”
Kevin Kline is a failed American writer, broke and in Paris to collect his inheritance — an ancient two-story apartment with an accompanying garden in the center city Marais district.Maggie Smith is the 90something little old Englishwoman living in it.And … Continue reading
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A gem just off I-95; Smithfield N.C.’s Ava Gardner Museum
It has always been just a bit out of the way on my every trek between Fla. and Va., where my family lives. And I always seemed to have people in the car who had no interest in Ava Gardner. … Continue reading
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Questions for Jane Fonda?
Oscar winner, daughter of an Oscar winner, brother to Peter, still controversial to some decades after her activism, Jane Fonda has her best comic role since, oh, “Electric Horseman,” with “This is Where I Leave You.” It’s a dysfunctional family … Continue reading
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Box Office: “Guardians” closes in on $300 million as the summer bottoms out
It’s the dead of winter, box office wise, that gloomy stretch when there’s no sign of life, no notion of when things will turn springlike and pop back to life. So “Guardians of the Galaxy” will manage another $10 million … Continue reading
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Next Screening: Fey and Bateman, Dax and Rose and above all, Jane Fonda — “This is Where I Leave You”
This looks very funny, everybody playing in their comical comfort zones. It opens in a few weeks, I have to see it early because of an interview with Ms. Fonda, the matriarch of this troubled, stumbling clan.
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