The Reader

 Is it fair that a movie with a 15 year old girl taking an older lover that spent a good 15% of its runtime with the pair romping around in bed would have been chastised for such lewd portrayal of an inappropriate romance whereas The Reader is garnering critical praise across the globe because the [...]

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Armchair Marketing: He’s Just Not That Into You

I’ve discovered the secret to blogging more often: Write Less! The much delayed ensemble romantic comedy He’s Just Not That Into You, based on the book of the same name that has been dog-eared by cat-owning women across the world, is finally coming out February 6th.  The poster went online today.  Hmm…I wonder what this [...]

Doubt

Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman?  Based on a play?  About molestation in the church?  Wow!  Sounds like it’s in the proverbial pretentious art house bag!  Add in the doe-eyed Amy Adams as a nun and you’re golden. Yes, all this and more got me in the door to what doesn’t exactly appear to be [...]

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Random Hulu Movie: Just Between Friends

I used to love the Random Sunday Afternoon movies that would come on TV and I would have never heard of.  Now that I’m too cheap to pay for cable, I’m left to get my random movies from the internet.  Hulu to the rescue! Just Between Friends is a cheesy melodrama from 1986.  Holly (Mary [...]