Month: November 2014
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Watch This: Trailer for Pitch Perfect 2
Pitch Perfect 2 won’t be in theaters until May 2015, but the first trailer has already been released.
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Review: Still Mine
Still Mine is simply exquisite. The actors, the story, the drama: everything about it is beautifully done. It’s a gem! The Canadian film stars James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold as a couple married for 60+ years. They live in a big drafty house in New Brunswick. The husband, Craig, decides to build a smaller house…
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Dad’s Army Stirs Up the Folks in East Yorkshire
The original Dad’s Army was a BBC sitcom about the Home Guard during WWII. It broadcast on BBC television from 1968 to 1977. The new version of Dad’s Army is a movie, currently being filmed in East Yorkshire. The film will be released in 2015 and stars Sarah Lancashire, Catherine Zeta Jones, Emily Atack, Bill…
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AARP Interview with Laura Hillenbrand on Unbroken
The AARP Bulletin ran an interesting story with Laura Hillenbrand talking about her book Unbroken and her relationship with World War II hero Louis Zamperini. The book is being made into a movie, directed by Angelina Jolie. I thought this quote from Laura Hillenbrand from the AARP Bulletin article was worth repeating here. “I wanted…
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Watch This: Two Days, One Night
Two Days, One Night opens in the U.S. on Christmas Eve. The film stars Marion Cotillard as a working-class mom, Sandra. She’s faced with the horrifying situation that her co-workers are going to vote on whether or not to let her keep her job. She’s in a race against time over the course of one…
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Review: Stay
Stay stars Taylor Schilling and Aidan Quinn. It’s a quiet tale about an older man (Dermot) and a younger woman (Abbey) living together in a remote section of Ireland. There’s a lot of unspoken story, or story slowly revealed in this movie. The film is based on a novel by Aislinn Hunter. The plot begins…
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Hot Diggity! Another Lost Girl Season 5 Promo
Lost Girl teases us with another very short promo for season 5. Oh my, does this look interesting!
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Brain Dump: Elementary, The Fall, State of Affairs
Short thoughts on lots of unrelated media. That’s a brain dump. Elementary In Elementary, I like Watson (Lucy Liu) being off in her own place with a hunky guy in her bed. I’m not sure I like the flirty little outfits she’s taken to wearing. The clothes aren’t quite serious enough. Maybe the whole clothing…
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A Rant about Person of Interest
I didn’t watch in Person of Interest when it began. I think I started watching when I noticed Sarah Shahi tweeting about it. From the first glimpse I saw a very different Sarah Shahi from anything I’d ever seen before. That was intriguing.