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MOVIE MASHUP With the final season of Downton Abbey nearly a year away, we decided to give ourselves a fix with the movie that helped Julian Fellowes decide to write the hit TV show. We refer to...
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DATELINE: One of the Golden Girls Ryan Reynolds is Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. He likely won because of Deadpool, but his far better movie of the year is Woman in Gold. Lacking car...
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DATELINE: Ten Years Later As docudramas go, Helen Mirren’s movie about Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana is among the best. Now ten years later, we took another peek at the film called merely The...
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DATELINE: Helen Mirren, Ghost Buster Eamon Ferren Nearly every role in Hollywood movies for women over 50 will go to Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, and/or Helen Mirren. The so-called “inspired” true...
View ArticlePascali: No Man an Island
DATELINE: Extraordinary Movie Over 30 years ago, we missed Pascali’s Island, one of those “think piece” movies that have already become an extinct movie genre. It was too good for Masterpiece...
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