By John on Jul 25, 2008 in General | 0 Comments
Hank, an embittered prison guard, lives with his aging racist father, Buck, and his own twentysomething son, Sonny. Hank and Sonny work for the local prison where they are preparing the electric chair for a black inmate. After the man is executed, Hank falls in love with Leticia, the inmate’s widow. This emotionally-charged affair forces Hank to re-evaluate how deeply prison work and his father’s infectious hatred have affected his soul.
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By John on Jun 14, 2008 in Culture, Movies | 2 Comments
The continuing adventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda as they live their lives in Manhattan four years after the series ended.
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By John on Jun 14, 2008 in Culture, Movies, Movies I Own | 0 Comments
Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman, who at age 66, has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He’s not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys him, and he disapproves of the man his daughter is about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies, he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his daughter to a man he doesn’t like, while coping with discoveries about his late wife and himself in the process.
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By John on Mar 29, 2008 in Culture, Movies | 0 Comments
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony’s vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family’s housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony’s headstrong older sister Cecilia (Kiera Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie - is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested - and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.
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By John on Oct 21, 2007 in Culture, Movies | 0 Comments
When rivalry between the world’s best men’s figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they’re banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating’s first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach’s secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings?
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By John on Aug 2, 2007 in Culture, Movies | 0 Comments
A God-fearing bluesman (Jackson) takes to a wild young woman (Ricci) who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.
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By John on Oct 22, 2006 in Culture, Humor, Movies | 0 Comments
A forty-something preschool teacher looks to the personals for a change of pace and a relationship, with hilarious results.
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By John on Nov 13, 2005 in Culture, Humor, Movies, Movies I Own | 0 Comments
John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary.
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By John on Mar 13, 2005 in Culture, Movies, Movies I Own | 0 Comments
A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend’s birthday party.
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By John on Aug 5, 2004 in Culture, Movies, Movies I Own | 0 Comments
The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan.
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By John on Jul 21, 2004 in Culture, Movies, Movies I Own | 0 Comments
A widowed Brooklyn book-keeper is torn between her fiancé and his brother.
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By John on Jun 26, 2004 in Culture, Movies, Movies I Own | 0 Comments
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
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