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Summer Vibes: IN THE HEIGHTS
The other main plot revolves around Nina (Leslie Grace) the whole block is so, so proud of her for making it out of the hood and attending her first year at Stanford University. None more proud than her self-made business man father, Kevin (Jimmy Smits) but Nina has not had a good year away. Her grades are fine, but the racial issues she's been dealing with at school have her longing for home...
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Movie Blog Post: COLLATERAL BEAUTY
Out of my heart, one treach’rous winter’s day, I locked young Love and threw the key away. Grief, wandering widely, found the key, And hastened with it, straightway, back to me, With Love beside him. He unlocked the door And bade Love enter with him there and stay. And so the twain abide for evermore. “Love And Grief” – Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar Death & Departure: A Holiday Message By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor of Tinsel & Tine What’s with all the death and dealing with the process of grief stuff this holiday season? David E. Talbert’s Almost Christmas (click for T&T post) deals with a family trying…
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AMERICAN ULTRA
If I Were A Sleeper Agent AMERICAN ULTRA By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay If I were a sleeper agent, God forbid they station me in some podunk town working in a mini-mart, until I’m possibly activated. I’d need to be enjoying a glam existence of chic couture, world travel, good food and a semi-high profile cover, like a celebrated artist or clothing designer. When activated, kicking ass as a killing machine, would never do, I’d like to become a master manipulator, gaining access to people in places of power and bending their will to mine. In AMERICAN ULTRA, Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) has no such luck, he’s…
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Philadelphia Connection: FOXCATCHER
Steve Carell plays the wealthy, eccentric, oddball, murderer John du Pont with perhaps a little too much characterization. Everyone's been praising Carell for losing himself in a dramatic roll; but for me, the transformative hair, prosthetic nose, extensive makeup, small teeth and overly stiff upward tilt of the head, is all a bit distracting...
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Do You Know How Many Calories are in Guacamole?: ENOUGH SAID
Once you reach a certain age an you’re either still single or single again, you’re sorta like a used book on Amazon; anyone looking to buy the book thinks why didn’t they keep the book? Why is the price so reasonable? How worn is it? Maybe it’s better to buy a new one. Seeing the recommendations from other buyers who rate the sellers, helps a lot with your decision to purchase a used book. And this is basically the premise of writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s latest movie Enough Said. T&T Enough Said Synopsis: Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a middle-aged, divorced woman with a daughter who’s about to go off to…
