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This Week in Movies and TV, April 2, 2013: Writers & Other Superheroes
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 02, 2013  |  0 comments

Hemingway & Gellhorn

In his first film for television, director Philip Kaufman (Henry & June, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Right stuff) focuses for the first half on Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) falling in love during the Spanish Civil War.

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This Week in Movies & TV, March 26, 2013: Presidents, Popes, & Prisoners
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 26, 2013  |  0 comments

Lincoln

January 1865, with the American Civil War in its fourth year, two months after Abraham Lincoln's re-election, there is much to be done, a nation to be remade in a new form.

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This Week in Movies & TV, March 26, 2013: Presidents, Popes, & Prisoners
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 26, 2013  |  0 comments
January 1865, with the American Civil War in its fourth year, two months after Abraham Lincoln's re-election, there is much to be done, a nation to be remade in a new form. Lincoln - directed by Steven Spielberg from Tony Kushner's screenplay, based in part on a biography by Doris Kearns Goodwin - depicts the true events confronting the president and his monumental political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery.
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This Week in Movies & TV, March 19, 2013: Hobbit Go Home!
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 19, 2013  |  0 comments

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Back, way back in Middle-Earth, 60 years before The Lord of the Rings saga began, there was another story. . . .

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This Week in Movies and TV, March 12th 2013: Hitchcock, Lang, & Buñuel
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 12, 2013  |  0 comments

Life of Pi 3D

What do you do when you find yourself adrift alone in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with just the company of an orangutan, a hyena, a zebra, and a majestic but fearsome, nay terrifying 450-pound male Bengal tiger? This is the sticky situation Pi Patel must deal with while trying to survive the elements and discover the meaning of life.

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This Week in Movies & TV, March 5, 2013: Fighters and Survivors
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 05, 2013  |  0 comments

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) is the true story of Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), pragmatist, war profiteer, and opportunist, willing to join the Nazi party to get ahead and to exploit Jews by taking part in the appropriating of homes and factories, and to take advantage of the impossible

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This Week New Movies for February 26th 2013: Society and Slaves
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 27, 2013  |  0 comments

The Master

Continuing to push the boundaries of traditional narrative and character development, the latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights), The Master, tells of Naval veteran Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives back stateside from fighting in the Pacific front in World War II troubled, un

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This Week New Movies for February 19th 2013: Hostages and Heroes
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 19, 2013  |  0 comments

Argo

Based on real-life events, the nail-biting dramatic thriller Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, is set at the height of the chaos of the Iranian revolution when, on November 4, 1979, militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran taking 52 Americans hostage and six embassy workers went out the back door.

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This Week New Movies for February 12th 2013: Bondage and Baggage
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 12, 2013  |  0 comments

Skyfall

Bond is back - or is he? With 007 shot and plunging down to disappear into a waterfall like Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem, MI6 blown to hell both physically and digitally, and M being forced into retirement . . . could this be the end?

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This Week New Movies for February 5th 2013: Fight or Flight
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 05, 2013  |  0 comments

Flight

Flight, as directed by Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future trilogy), states loudly and firmly the message that the ordinary working man - and woman - doesn't stand a chance against the system and the pressures of modern life. The only choices they have to help them cope are booze and drugs or religion.

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