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DVD Review: ‘Rake: Series 3’ – The Original Australian Version
'Rake: Series 3' continues down the path of excellence established by the first two seasons of this great television show.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘The Present’ with Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh
Blanchett's Anna is as complex a lost soul as Broadway is likely to host this season, her yellow-hot energy as vital and clamorous when she's fuming in silence at the dinner table as when she's swooping in desperate high spirits from friend to friend in Act I. Roxburgh, in the most central role, is just as compelling.
Read More »Movie Review: Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’
Directed by Todd Haynes, Carol is the visual testament of what unbridled and pure love looks like, a smile amid the white noise of the crowd.
Read More »NYC and Hamptons Film Fest Review: ‘Carol’ with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara
Opening at the NY and Hamptons Film Festivals, "Carol," starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett shows that sometimes forbidden love is the most electric and entrancing of all.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’
Filled with every bit as much heart, adventure, danger, and hilarity as the original.
Read More »Academy Awards 2014 – Few Surprises But Some Delights
Despite an extremely and unnecessarily bloated telecast, I fought off sleepiness and stayed awake until the last award was announced.
Read More »Movie Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’
A disturbing, engaging, and finally dispassionate study of a woman buckling under the weight of social pressures.
Read More »Movie Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Don’t waste your time and money, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is boring.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Hanna (2011)
Joe Wright's very distinct look at a child assassin hits Blu-ray.
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