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Not Fade Away is a story from writer Director David Chase nestled within those halcyon days of Rock and Roll from just before the Beatles to just after the Summer of Love. From the clipped editing clearly he had a lot to say about that era and not nearly enough time to say it all. Anyway, before the British Invasion Douglas (John Magaro) had a good relationship with his working class parents ...

Jamie Foxx is Django the luckiest pre-civil war slave ever after he’s introduced to Dr. King Schultz (a mesmerizing Christoph Waltz). He’s a German Dentist/Bounty Hunter with a dramatically better grasp of English than most of his American hosts despite it being his second language. Schultz is on the hunt for three fraternal marauders with prices on their heads but no identifiable characteris ...

Les Miserable is based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel on the theme of oppressive social injustice that pervaded early 19th century France during one of that country’s turbulent post revolutionary returns to the monarchy. In a fairly literal presentation of the original story ex convict Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) has his heart, hardened by a travesty of justice, softened by a kindly priest. H ...

The Eye of the Storm is a blow back to 1972 in the environs of Sydney Australia where dowager Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) is at death’s door in her rural mansion attended by two nurses and her Cabaret performing housekeeper.  She anxiously awaits the arrival of her princess daughter Dorothy de Lascabanes (Judy Davis) from France and knighted actor son Basil Hunter (Geoffrey Rush) fr ...

The Artist has nothing to do with any of the aliases adopted by Rogers Nelson (sometimes a.k.a. Prince).  It’s a French financed film with a lot of Hollywood faces. There are also a lot of subtitles but not because of no English dialogue –this is a silent film that apes the black and white method acting that died when talkies changed the face of cinema overnight. Much like the legendary Valen ...

Shame does not appear to be a factor for the principles of this dark and erotic drama since most of them spend significant time on screen without benefit of clothing.  The film stars Michael Fassbender as Brandon Sullivan, a stellar New York executive who seems to be totally together. His lifestyle gets a little cramped however when his suicidal sister Sissy Sullivan (Carey Mulligan) comes to ...

Like Crazy is about the malleable Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and the take charge Anna (Felicity Jones), two L.A. college students who fall in love during their graduation year. Too bad at least one of them wasn’t studying molecular biology that final year of school because at least then there would be a little chemistry on screen. Anyway their passion has Anna foolishly violating her visitor’s vis ...

Melancholia actually references disastrous malaise spawned from two worlds. First and foremost is that of Justine (Kirsten Dunst) a somewhat manic depressive bride who comes by her mental disability honestly being the daughter of Gaby (Charlotte Rampling) a jaded and overbearing mother and Dexter (John Hurt) her father who has a penchant for carrying on with a multitude of other women at once ...

My Week with Marilyn is about a short window in the career of the immortal Marilyn Monroe just prior to Some Like it Hot when she went to England to work with the greatest actor of his time, Sir Laurence Olivier.  She hoped that some of his style would massage her career and as we find out Olivier hoped that her vivaciousness would result in some career and personal rejuvenation. However the ...