Posted by moviegeek916 on November 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
My Week with Marilyn (2011) – Oscar-bait season is here at last, and with it we get our first front-runner for Best Actress: two-time nominee Michelle Williams (though Meryl Streep has a movie about Margaret Thatcher coming up later this year so it’s too early to declare Williams the victor). Back in the days of … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on November 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
J. Edgar (2011) – Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Lance Black, and J. Edgar Hoover: this seems like a combination that can’t go wrong. Clint Eastwood has been a gifted film-maker wince the 1970s but in the past decade he has hit a stride that makes him one of the more interesting elder statesmen of … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 