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This Week in Movies & TV, June 11, 2013: 7 Year Witch
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 11, 2013  |  0 comments

Wild Strawberries

In this much-beloved 1957 masterpiece from the great film artist Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Persona,Smiles of a Summer Night), Professor Isak Borg - memorably played by veteran director Victor Sjöström (The Phantom Carriage, He Who Gets Slapped, The Wind) - is a selfish and somewhat cruel, yet old-world charm

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This Week in Movies & TV, June 4, 2013: Dead & Deader
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 04, 2013  |  0 comments

A Good Day to Die Hard

The latest chapter of the popular, 25-year-old franchise is a Die Hard film with subtitles. But, fear not, ardent fans, it's just for a scene or two at the start and that's as arty as it gets. The rest of the film is standard slam-bam, big-boom, non-stop adrenaline-filled, Yippie-Kai-Yay thrill seeking.

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This Week in Movies & TV, May 28, 2013: Epic Curious
Josef Krebs  |  May 28, 2013  |  0 comments

Cleopatra

For its 50th anniversary - along with the hoopla of a Cannes Film Festival re-release, a limited theatrical engagement in more than 200 theaters, and Richard Burton's posthumously receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to Elizabeth Taylor's - Cleopatra has been newly digitally restored in a 243-minute original theatrical cut.

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This Week in Movies & TV, May 21, 2013: Mad, Bad, & Dangerous
Josef Krebs  |  May 21, 2013  |  0 comments
When her husband, Martin (Channing Tatum) gets out of stint in prison for insider trading, Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara) falls into a deep depression and attempts suicide leading to her being put on an experimental new medication that has complicated side effects - such as stabbing your husband while you're sleep walking.
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This Week in Movies & TV, May 14, 2013: Eastern Thoughts Go West
Josef Krebs  |  May 14, 2013  |  0 comments

Cloud Atlas

Written and directed by Andy and Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), Cloud Atlas takes you on a mind-boggling odyssey through many ages and places that come together to make up the six-story tapestry of lives and previous lives, allowing many of the best actors in Hollywood and England to play multipl

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This Week in Movies & TV, May 7, 2013: Prisoners, Escapees, & Outsiders
Josef Krebs  |  May 07, 2013  |  0 comments

Jack Reacher

Reacher (Tom Cruise) is an ex-lifer military police officer living off the grid. He agrees to become lead investigator for attorney Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike) who’s trying to keep a veteran sniper off death row since all evidence points to him having randomly shot five people.

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This Week in Movies & TV, April 30, 2013: Demented Dancers & Dreamers
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 30, 2013  |  0 comments

Silver Linings Playbook

In Silver Linings Playbook by director David O. Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter, I Heart Huckabees), former high school history teacher Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) gets out of a state institution after spending eight months incarcerated there.

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This Week in Movies & TV, April 23, 2013: Mobsters & Millionaires
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 23, 2013  |  0 comments

Gangster Squad

By 1949, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), a New York Jew, has gone West to follow his manifest destiny to take over Los Angeles and then the whole of the Western United States through buying politicians, judges, and cops with profits from his vice, gambling, and drug rackets.

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This Week in Movies & TV, April 16, 2013: Gore Issues
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 17, 2013  |  0 comments

Django Unchained

Set in the South in 1858, two years before the Civil War, writer-director Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti-sauced Western (or more accurately Southern) Django Unchained tells of Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave bought and freed by a German-born bounty hunter, Dr.

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This Week in Movies & TV, April 9, 2013: Leaders & Other Lunatics
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 09, 2013  |  0 comments

Richard III

I'm no bard or balladeer, but I'd like to sing the praises of this Blu-ray (not to bury it).

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