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Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Dylan Farrow and Woody Allen By Anne Brodie Let's open with a fact-based story of celebrity woe that's screaming from the headlines again. Woody Allen was one of the world's leading filmmakers and writers, he made a movie a year or so for decades, usually …
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Dianne Wiest and Rosamund Pike in I Care a Lot Rosamund Pike bilks the elderly in her role as a Professional Legal Guardian in J Blakeson's I Care a Lot. Her latest victim, a healthy and functioning woman living alone, played by Dianne Wiest, is helpless as Pike's abuser systematically strips her …
Continue Reading about Rosamund Pike’s Shocking Turn as a Financial Predator in I Care a Lot.
By Anne Brodie Three Oscar winners pool their resources to bring to life the deeply dark serial killer drama The Little Things, written and directed by John Lee Hancock. Denzel Washington is Deke, an ageing small-town detective kicked out of LA some years earlier in disgrace, Rami Malek is …
Continue Reading about The Many Moods of Movies This Week. We Run the Gamut of Emotions.
By Anne Brodie Lupin The emotionally charged story of love and sacrifice, Our Friend concerns grace, doing unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Dakota Johnson, a wife and mother of two diagnosed with terminal cancer and her husband (Casey Affleck) are overwhelmed by grief and domestic …
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By Anne Brodie Former author and full-time wit, Fran Lebowitz agreed to sit down with longtime friend Martin Scorsese and spill; what a treat! The 70- year old’s on-the-mark observations about life in the world's busiest city are gems of imagination, word usage, speed and fancy, what Oscar Wilde …
