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Falcon Crest Season 1

Falcon Crest: Season 1 (1981)

I’m smacking myself on the head at this moment.  I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how to justify a comparison between Falcon Crest and The Waltons to...

Jennifer
A Single Man (2009)

A Single Man (2009)

Every once in awhile, a movie comes along that makes me swoon. A film swoon usually begins within the first ten minutes, making me sit up with attention and...

Linda
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a hard nut to crack.  From the outset, it’s difficult to tell if what you’re watching is meant to be dead...

Jennifer
American Violet (2008)

American Violet (2008)

American Violet is one of those awful (i.e. brilliant and compelling) movies like Felon that rattles you to the core from the very beginning, then leaves you in knots...

Jennifer
The Runaways (2010)

The Runaways (2010)

The Runaways were formed in Los Angeles when punky Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) approached producer svengali Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) at a nightclub and sold herself as a female...

Linda
Adam (2009)

Adam (2009)

Written and directed by Max Mayer, and minus all the high-concept, big-budget bells and whistles that fill screens this time of year, the film is just a simple love...

Vickie
Return to Cranford

Return to Cranford

To its credit, almost the entire cast (at least of the surviving characters) returns for this two-part sequel. Still fluttering about gossiping like a cluster of chickens are Miss...

Linda
American Gangster (2007)

American Gangster (2007)

It’s beefy, both in running time and content, and filled from open to close with bad guys, good buys, flying bullets, violence, drugs, murder, chase sequences and some stellar...

Vickie
A Good Year (2006)

A Good Year (2006)

Even more surprising is that the film is helmed by big-budget tough guy Ridley Scott, who last teamed with Crowe for the decidedly less-genteel Gladiator. Based on the book...

Jennifer
Creation (2009)

Creation (2009)

Director Jon Amiel (The Core, ‘nuff said) has before him the life and work of Charles Darwin and could have easily made a movie about the theory of evolution...

Vickie
A Serious Man

A Serious Man

First of all, what the eff with the first 10 minutes or so of the movie? I almost popped out the DVD to check the label on the movie...

Linda
Up in the Air

Up in the Air (2009)

In a role that suits him like, well, one of those nice tailored suits, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who is, for all practical purposes, a terminator....

Linda