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Blue Jasmine
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 10, 2014
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Screenwriter-director Woody Allen serves up a delicious modern variation on Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire filled with humor, tragedy, and great performances. Leading the cast is a towering Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, a former New York socialite whose life has fallen to pieces. The story is told by flashing back and forth between her old life of luxury and glamour in her 5th Avenue, Manhattan mansion (and summer house in the Hamptons) and her new humble and humbling existence living with her working-class sister (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco after Jasmine’s successful businessman husband (Alec Baldwin) is sent to prison for fraud and all their funds seized.
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Red 2
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 27, 2014
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The idea of great, aging actors running around, dropping their elegant theatrical gravitas, and letting their hair down to play goofy action heroes was an inspired one that produced plenty of humor and charm in Reds. Though the concept doesn’t work quite as well the second time around, it still offers a lot of fun.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 21, 2014
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There’s not much gained by the contemporary setting to offset the oddness of having Shakespeare’s characters seem like a bunch of Wall Street stockbrokers speaking strange in the Hamptons as if in a Woody Allen comedy, but otherwise the Bard’s words flow well enough from the pretty mouths of the cast.

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This Week in Movies & TV, October 29, 2013: Dead of Night
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 31, 2013
Deadwood: The Complete Series, La Notte, Monster Cars: Monsters University 3D & Cars 3D, and Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Series 9.
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This Week in Movies & TV, October 22, 2013: Pure Talent—19 Movies in 3 Gift Sets
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 23, 2013
Three super collections on Blu-ray—John Cassavetes: Five Films, The Vincent Price Collection, Bruce Lee: The Legacy Collection
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This Week in Movies & TV, October 15, 2013: Aliens, Intruders, & Strangers
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 16, 2013
Reviewed on Blu-ray: Pacific Rim, The Haunting, High Plains Drifter, Eyes Without a Face, Notting Hill & Love Actually, The Stranger.
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This Week in Movies & TV, October 8, 2013: Horror, Sci-Fi, & Shakespeare
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 10, 2013
Much Ado About Nothing, After Earth, The Hangover Part III, Fear Eats the Soul 3 – The Night After the Nightmare: The Exorcist, Curse of Chucky, Chucky: The Complete Collection, I Married a Witch, Zombie Hunter, American Horror Story: Asylum, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea & Fantastic Voyage, Stalag 17.
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This Week in Movies & TV, October 1, 2013: End of the Rainbow
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 02, 2013
The Wizard of Oz 75th anniversary Collector’s Edition, This is the End, Poirot: Series 7 & 8, Jack Irish, The Big Parade, and From Here to Eternity.
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This Week in Movies & TV, September 24, 2013: Serious Irony
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 24, 2013
Iron Man 3, The Big Combo, Foyle’s War: Set 7, 3 Films By Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman, Fear Eats the Soul 2 — The Nightmare Continues: Prince of Darkness, Halloween, Psycho II, Psycho III, V/H/S/2, Hannibal: Season 1.
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This Week in Movies & TV, September 17, 2013: Zombies, Mothers, & Other Horrors
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 17, 2013
World War Z, Fear Eats the Soul— The Horror Continues: Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, Bates Motel: Season 1, Autumn Sonata, Behind the Candelabra, and more.
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