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Movie Blog Post: THE HERO
Laura Prepon (That’s 70’s Show and Orange is the New Black) plays Lee Hayden’s love interest. You’d think that would be icky, with the age difference, instead you really get the sense that they’re responding as two people who recognize a bit of themselves in the other...
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SONG TO SONG
I enjoy movies set inside the music scene like: Almost Famous, Crazy Heart, Walk the Line, Inside Llewyn Davis, La La Land, even The Runaways, with Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart playing Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, it's pretty bad, but still has something to recommend it. These movies depict some aspect or time period of the music industry.
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KNIGHT OF CUPS
Not My Cuppa… By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Knight of Cups follows writer Rick (Christian Bale, The Fighter, American Hustle) on an odyssey through the playgrounds of Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a search for love and self. Even as he moves through a desire-laden landscape of mansions, resorts, beaches and clubs, Rick grapples over complicated relationships with his brother (Wes Bentley) and father (Brian Dennehy). His quest to break the spell of his disenchantment takes him on a series of adventures with six alluring women… – Broad Green Pictures Some reviews say the main character, Rick’s (Bale) profession in the movie is an actor, others say…
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Commentary – THE TREE OF LIFE
“it is hardly a movie for the masses and will polarize even buffs, some of whom might fail to grasp the connection between the depiction of the beginnings of life on Earth and the travails of a 1950s Texas family.” – The Hollywood Reporter I left this film thinking what a crap role for Sean Penn, I suppose he’d only accept such a non-role from someone considered a mad genius, like Terrence Malick. I could not engage in the interminably long segment of the film that depicted scenes of nature’s glorious wonder, firmament and imagery of creation. I consider myself a spiritual person, but this was just frame after frame,…