I know, I know. This is the Orlando Weekly, not New York Weekly. But still, it’s been an unbearably slow week as far as film items are concerned, and the thing that’s been going through my head the most is Time Out New York’s “100 Greatest NY Films” piece that came out this week. It’s an...
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In case you either live under a rock or on the rock, Henry Hill, the real life Brooklyn mobster who was the model for Ray Liotta’s character in the film Goodfellas, died this week. People seem to be remembering him more for the later, but let’s not forget the former. He was a mobster...
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I hadn’t planned on writing anything about the finale of House that aired Monday night to mixed reviews. For one thing, I didn’t watch it until later that night because I was watching hockey. Also true is that, despite an apparently changing wind that has stirred everyone but me, I don’t really like TV....
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Things are starting to heat up outside, but at the box office, well, not so much. X-Men: First Class was the big opener this weekend, showing on almost 7,000 screens in North America. Despite playing on the most screens of any X-Men movie (dramatically so, with Wolverine topping out at 4,100) it only made...
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As you might’ve noticed this weekend when you went to see Thor, the movies have long been a place for directors to work out their daddy issues on screen for the world to see. We are essentially a patriarchial society afterall, and we have an overwhelmingly male director force, who all have something to...
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Tags: Field of Dreams, Goodfellas, Mother's Day, Mr. Mom, Serial Mom, Spanglish, The Graduate, Thor
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