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”The Counselor’ is one of those films that I really expected to love. After all, it was directed by Ridley Scott and written by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Cormac McCarthy (‘No Country For Old Men’) If those credentials weren’t enough, the cast included Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz. What […]
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Some films are works of art…that you’ll remember for years…Films you’ll want to watch over and over again…’Escape Plan’, directed by Mikael Hafstrom, is not one of them… However, it is very entertaining, in a predictable sort of way. Sylvester Stallone plays Ray Breslin, the world’s leading authority on prisons…building them…securing them and most importantly, […]
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’12 Years A Slave’ directed by the extremely talented, Steve McQueen, (‘Shame’) is simply put…Brilliant. Written by John Ridley, based on Solomon Northrup’s best selling memoir, published over 160 years ago, this is a true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. Eight years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) a […]
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There are many reasons to see this film. Number One:This is one of the best directed films I’ve seen in 2013 and… Tom Hanks as Captain Phillips has never been better. If that isn’t enough to convince you, John, the other half of Two Jews On Film…(The super critical half) awarded it five bagels out […]
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There are a few things that scare me…The thought of being ‘buried alive’…Being locked in a room with snakes and rats, and now, after seeing the brilliant, heart stopping thriller, ‘Gravity’, being stranded in space has now been added to my list. ‘Gravity, directed by Alfonso Curaron (‘Children of Men’) wrote the script with his […]
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First I have to say that I love Joseph Gordon Levitt. He is one talented actor and with his new film, ‘Don Jon’, he shows us that acting, is not the only thing he’s good at. Not only does Levitt star in this film, he wrote and directed it as well. Levitt plays Jon Martello, […]
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From the moment ‘Prisoners’, directed by Denis Villeneuve (‘Incendies’) began, I knew I was about to see a film that was really, really good. And I was not disappointed. In fact, by the time the end-credits rolled, I was actually feeling ‘creeped-out (in a good way, if that’s possible) and that feeling stayed with me […]
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‘Rush’ directed by two time Academy Award winner Ron Howard (‘A Beautiful Mind’, ‘Frost/Nixon’) is supposedly, based on a true story. I say, supposedly because, like many ‘true stories’, there’s a great deal of ‘not so true’ stuff thrown into the mix. ‘Rush’ written by Peter Morgan (‘Frost/Nixon) depicts the intense rivalry between two Formula […]
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Meet the Manzoni’s. A family no different than your average family…Mother, Father, Two Kids, except…they are in the Witness Protection Program and they like to beat people up, or in the case of Daddy Manzoni, kill people… Giovanni Manzoni (Robert DeNiro) was a big time mob boss, who like many big time mob bosses, wound […]
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For those of you who think your family has problems, wait until you meet the Lamberts. We were first introduced to them a few years back in the horror film, ‘Insidious’ and things have not gotten any better for them. To refresh everyone’s memory or in case you missed the first film…Here’s a brief synopsis […]
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