Effie Gray lived a fairy-tale marriage with celebrated art critic John Ruskin. But despite the glittering world of high society, wealth and a sumptuous estate, she was miserable and became more and more afraid.
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Principal Photography Begins on Robert Carlyle’s ‘Legend of Barney Thomson’
Principal photography has begun on Robert Carlyle's "Legend of Barney Thomson," his feature-film directorial debut.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks’
A resonant movie, especially, perhaps, for us writers, so often living in our imaginations and through our characters.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks’
It's exactly the kind of warm and fuzzy film we expect around the holidays; if either Emma Thompson or Tom Hanks aren’t nominated, it would be a travesty.
Read More »Movie Review: Beautiful Creatures (2013)
This will probably go down as the year's biggest surprise. A complete success in spite of the studio's advertising.
Read More »Movie Review: Brave (2012)
Pixar Brave-ly alludes the unlucky number 13 and returns to form.
Read More »Movie Review: Brave (2012)
A plucky princess has to learn the value of family and tradition in Pixar’s 13th feature Brave
Read More »Movie Review: Men in Black 3
Third time brings back the charm.
Read More »Movie Review: Men in Black 3
In Men in Black 3 Will Smith travels in time to meet Warhol and save his partner from extraterrestrial terror.
Read More »DVD Review: The Song of Lunch
The Song of Lunch is poetry on screen, performed by two of the best actors in the business.
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