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Talk About Grit!: UNBROKEN (Angelina Jolie)
Wartime dramas can be tough no matter what, but Angelina Jolie has directed a film with no let up on the grueling physical and mental anguish that Zamperini experienced. I think if Unbroken cut out a few days at sea and a couple of beatings and instead we got to see Louis...
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BEST & WORST MOVIES of 2014 (Top 10 List)
Every year I get to this point where I need to do a Tinsel & Tine end of the year movie round up and then I say to myself "What have you been doing all year?" Because, there's always so many movies I didn't get to see or saw but never wrote about. This year I felt my Golden Globes nominations post would suffice as an end of the year wrap up, and then...
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Ozery Bakery Morning Rounds & Uniquely Greek Feta Cheese Spreads Product Reviews
Morning Rounds are by Ozery Bakery, they are toastable fruit and grain buns which are vegan and kosher, low sodium, contain 11g of whole grains per serving, omega-3 polyunsaturated fat (the good fat) Good source of fiber and free of saturated & trans fats. One of the snack size rounds are only 70 calories and one of the full size buns are 160 calories...
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Annie Director Will Gluck Says Race Didn’t Play a Part in Casting
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor This Annie remake has been in the works for a while. We all knew Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith had gotten the rights to update the Charles Strouse musical for a new movie. At one point their daughter Willow was supposed to play the title role. Then we learned Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was also producing, so I don’t think there was any doubt that this version of Annie was being looked at as “The Black Annie”, right? Like “The Wiz” or “The Preachers Wife”. So why did I read this article on i am ROGUE where director Will Gluck says: Was the goal always…
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See Chris Rock’s TOP FIVE (Rock in Philly Video)
Rock’s “Top Five” displays the finest strengths we’ve seen yet from a filmmaker who is clearly becoming more immersed in and thoughtful about his craft. There is a slow growing group of comic voices aspiring to put more soul and feeling into comedies, and Rock joins Louis CK, Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow in that category with this film… READ MORE – Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist Indiewire.com This isn’t the first praise I’ve read when it comes to Chris Rock’s thoughtful, semi-autobiographical, comedy Top Five (click for trailer) about a successful “Hammy” comedian coming to a crossroads in his life, looking to take a serious left turn with a film…
