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Commentary – SATC2
When Busby Berkeley wowed and won over throngs of people in the 30’s & 40’s with his movies of sparkle, charm and eye candy, were there just no movie critics around or did movie critics used to be real people who can take things at face value, enjoy it and for God’s sake, not pick, pick, pick like vultures on prey! Casting aside the filmmakers’ breathtaking cultural insensitivity, their astonishing tone-deaf ear for dialogue and pacing, their demented, self-serving idea of female empowerment, the biggest sin of “Sex and the City 2” is its lack of beauty. It’s garish when it should be sumptuous, tacky when it should be luxe,…
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Commentary- The Joneses, The Good The Bad and The Weird, Allen Iverson: No Crossover
this was the one I wanted to see because of my affinity for both David Duchovny and Demi Moore, wanted to see if they had any chemistry together. They do, but it wasn't magical...
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When am I going to be able to get a tax credit on my movie watching
I saw in a row, on the same day for $6. Not bad, but as I couldn't work in a Ritz Theater discounted Wednesday or matinee showing, I paid full price for An Education and Up in the Air....
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Jeff Bridges in CRAZY HEART
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I have a friend who’s an aspiring music journalist, similar to Maggie Gylenhaal’s character in Crazy Heart. She likes to review lesser known musicians who come into town and play Philly’s smaller venues. That honky tonk sound with a rootsy rock influence, by musicians with snow on the roof, but plenty of sexy fire still in the belly — John Doe, to name one, is really her thing. So it was great to watch the movie with her and see it through her eyes and better yet, she treated! It would seem the Producers of Crazy Heart banked on the success of last year’s has…
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The Birth Tinsel & Tine!
I’d like to thank all my friends and family who were with me during the labor pains of birthing a new name for my blog. I was given some good suggestions: “Film Bites”, “Restaurant and Reels”, “Dip My Toe”, “Cinema Gastronomique”, “Cineatsta”,”Hungry Eyes” and a few others. I actually only got two enthusiastic responses to Tinsel & Tine, so I was going to go with majority rules and set about buying the domain filmbites.net, but at the checkout, I changed my mind; it just didn’t seem to have any ME in it. And blogging is all about the blogger, it’s a very narcissistic endeavor; I think that’s why there are…
