Rise of the Planet of the Apes
In all the advertising for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, James Franco is touted as the lead attraction. He’s his usual wonderful…
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The Day Carl Sandburg Died
There was a time when everybody knew who Carl Sandburg was. America’s beloved “poet of the people,” he was also a novelist, journalist, foreign…
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A Postmodern Romance
If the purpose of art, as John Cheever once observed, is to impose order on chaos, Taiyo La Paix may have been saved by…
Read MoreHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) was dashed to his death from the Hogwarts Astronomy Tower near the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,…
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Second Time Around
When the Agfa factory closed in Pisgah Forest in 2002, 270 people lost their jobs. Tim and Donna Frady were among them. After nearly…
Read MoreQueen to Play
On the island of Corsica, Helene (Sondrine Bonnaire) lives a modest life with her dockworker husband and rebellious teenage daughter. Since her marriage, she’s…
Read MoreLarry Crowne
If you are old enough to be bored with intergalactic robots yet young enough to remember when a kiss was still a kiss, then…
Read MoreGreen Lantern
I don’t like movies based on comic book super-heroes but I do like men in green tights. So I allowed myself to be talked…
Read MoreTransformers: Dark of the Moon
If you like behemoth robot warriors, terrified humans, falling buildings, skydiver heroes, explosions every 30 seconds, metropolises being destroyed, and more mayhem than you…
Read MoreHorrible Bosses
My friend hated this movie and sat grim-faced through the entire thing. She found it crude and coarse. So did I. And I laughed…
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