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Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter)

Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter)

Daniel Auteuil, in a performance that is almost entirely passive, creates a character that somehow sticks in your craw. His Stephane is a handsome and humble man, and is...

Linda
The Thing Called Love (1993)

The Thing Called Love (1993)

Samantha Mathis plays this young chickie-poo who moves to Nashville to be discovered as a songwriter. Around the time this film was made, I remember there being a big...

Linda
Take Me Home Tonight

Take Me Home Tonight

“Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector is quite easily one of the best songs of the 80s.  Use that song as the title of a...

Jennifer
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

The winner of the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival and ultimately the Oscar for Best Picture, director Danny Boyle’s latest offering combines his trademark frenetic style...

Vickie
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Admittedly Yemen has an image problem, especially in the West. The Brits in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen know this, as does Brit-friendly Sheikh Muhammed (Amr Waked) who has...

Linda
Little Ashes

Little Ashes

In the late 1920s in Spain, the paths of some extraordinary young men crossed paths at an art school in Madrid. Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) was already well...

Linda
Last Night (1998)

Last Night (1998)

It is literally the last night, the world is ending, and humankind has known this for at least several months. Why it’s ending is not really clear (it is...

Linda
In Praise of Older Women (1978)

In Praise of Older Women (1978)

Andras is a young man who came quickly of age in World War II Hungary. We see this in the opening scene as 10-year-old Andras, played by a very...

Linda
Ghost Town

Ghost Town

Bertram Pincus D.D.S. (Gervais), a self-absorbed dentist who really is not a people person, does not understand daily acts of kindness towards fellow humans. He stuffs cotton into the...

Linda
Date Night

Date Night

Director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) knows this, and gleefully hands the wheel of this silly but often hilarious mistaken-identity caper over to the...

Vickie
The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain

Take Sylvia (Charlize Theron) for instance. We first meet her as she wakes up in bed with a man and immediately dismisses him. Naked, she walks to the window...

Linda
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

I feel like I will be sent to Movie Hell for saying this, but I don’t really like Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I didn’t really care for it the first...

Linda