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Valkyrie

December 25th, 2008

Valkyrie is the name of an instantly recognizable piece by Wagner. Wagner was one of the few artists sanctioned by the Third Reich so it’s no surprise to have it as a code name for a military plan of action for the protection of the fuhrer should anyone want to launch a coup against Adolph Hitler. During he reign of terror there were over a dozen attempts to assassinate him, the last involved ...

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The Reader

December 25th, 2008

The Reader was a fifteen year old West German boy named Michael who in 1955 took up reading aloud at the bedside of Hannah, a woman 18 years his senior. Hannah was no invalid but Michael cared for her dutifully, probably in large part because there was sex involved after each oration. The affair lasted one summer before Hannah launched into her usual mysterious vagabond routine and disappeare ...

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Yes Man

December 20th, 2008

Yes Man stars Jim Carrey as Carl Allen an LA loans officer who can not let go of the hot wife who dumped him and is so damaged that he throws up an iron clad shell around himself so that even his best friends who are constantly throwing him a lifeline are routinely ignored. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads him to an encounter with life coaching guru Terrence Bundley (a very c ...

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The Tale of Despereaux

December 20th, 2008

The Tale of Despereaux takes us to a mythical kingdom where soup is king until the king outlaws soup. That’s because his queen dies tragically in a soup related incident precipitated by a rat named Roscuro ( Dustin Hoffman) who then makes his escape to the subterranean world of Rat Town where the evil Mayor (Frank Langella) is bent on manipulating Roscuro into conforming to the rat stereotype ...

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Frost/Nixon

December 12th, 2008

Frost/Nixon is the untold story behind those historic late 70’s face to face interviews between deposed president Richard Nixon and British entertainer David Frost as the unlikely interviewer. He landed the interview by appealing to Nixon’s soft spot – his wallet. What was supposed to be a mea culpa for tricky Dickie almost turned out to be a second coming as it soon became apparent that desp ...

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Nothing Like the Holidays

December 12th, 2008

Nothing Like the Holidays is really nothing like most stories based on tense family moments around the old Yule log. For starters other than mom and dad wanting a divorce there’s a lot of love in this Chicago family of 5 with ties to Puerto Rico. Mom (Elizabeth Peña) suspect’s dad (Afred Molina) of having an affair which he doesn’t deny and at dinner just prior to Christmas Eve announces her ...

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A Christmas Tale

December 12th, 2008

A Christmas Tale is a French take on the dysfunctional family Christmas get together but it is nothing like the gingerbread cutter formula we’re used to with this kind of story. It doesn’t repeatedly go for a punch line and what laughs do come up are pretty dark. Even the most sympathetic member of the family isn’t all that likeable. That would be Junon (Catherine Deneuve) the GILF matriarch ...

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Nobel Son

December 5th, 2008

Nobel Son stars the loveable Alan Rickman playing a very unlikeable character. He’s Professor Eli Michaelson PhD soon to be Nobel laureate of chemistry, an accolade that makes him even more insufferable. Mary Steenburgen is Sarah a crackerjack lawyer and Eli’s long suffering wife. The family dynamic is explored through their son Barkley (Bryan Greenberg) the apple of his mother’s eye but as a ...

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Saving Luna

December 5th, 2008

Saving Luna is a gorgeous and tenderly poetic documentary five years in the making about an affectionate semi-famous orca orphaned in Nootka Sound earlier this decade. Husband and wife journalists Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm ended up devoting three years documenting the amazing story of Orca L 69 nick named Luna. He was abandoned by his pod in his infancy and his instinctive craving f ...

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Milk

November 27th, 2008

Milk is a Gus Van Sant biopic about Harvey Milk, a San Franciscan who was the first openly gay man ever elected to public office in the USA. That today this would be no phenomenon at all speaks volumes as to the progress made since the ‘70’s. As a neophyte campaigner the power of his demographic once organized started to become clear although it took several tries before winning a seat as ...

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