Category: Movies
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Marvel: Ultimate Mentor Adventure for girls interested in STEM fields
Marvel is doing something marvelous for girls who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) around the release of Thor: The Dark World. The program is called Ultimate Mentor Adventure. Here’s how it works. Natalie Portman, who plays Jane Foster, an astrophysicist, in Thor: The Dark World describes the program in a video…
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Dream Actress Pairings
The other day Sarah Shahi tweeted a pic of her and Amy Acker working together on Person of Interest. @AmyAcker and I spending the day together pic.twitter.com/RdYVXPWge0 — Sarah Shahi (@onlysarahshahi) September 12, 2013 Sarah Shahi and Amy Acker: I think that’s an interesting combination of stars. Two people that you might not ever expect…
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Two interesting documentary films about equality
A couple of interesting documentaries caught my eye recently. Even though they are very different, they are both about equality. The first, CinemAbility, is about equal treatment of the disabled. It’s about a movement to portray disabled people in film and pop culture realistically. If you read my post We Need More Young Geeky Female…
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Review: Now You See Me
Do you have fun at magic shows? Can you react to a trick with a 6-year-old’s sense of delight? If the answer is yes, you are going to really enjoy this magic show of a movie. Now You See Me is a magic act wrapped up in a heist movie and featuring a Robin Hood…
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August: Osage County is Full of Promise (Updated)
August: Osage County is the most promising movie, story, cast, whatever, to come along in a very long time. It’s a family drama with many strong women called together by a family crisis at their childhood home in Oklahoma. It’s based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tracy Letts. Letts also wrote the screen play…
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Enough Said Looks Good
The romantic comedy Enough Said coming to theaters on September 20 looks good. It stars the late James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus who get romantically involved as a couple of empty nesters. Look at some of the cast members.
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Magic Mike: A Review
It may be old news on movie reviews here at Old Ain’t Dead for a while, because I recently came into 3 months of free HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and Encore. I’m going to have a ball catching up on things I haven’t seen for the next 3 months. The first thing I watched in this…
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In a World: A Review
In a World is terrific.
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Lee Daniels’ The Butler is Powerful
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is one of the most powerful films I’ve seen in a very long time. It’s like watching a newsreel of my own life. It is a newsreel of my own life. It was especially meaningful to watch it on Sunday as the nation remembered the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March…
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Where in the World is In a World?
I so wanted to go see In a World last weekend. It looks hilarious. It’s written by, directed by, and stars a woman: Lake Bell. That’s the kind of movie that makes me plunk my money down. It opened August 9, but it is nowhere to be found in my city. What’s up with that,…