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Anna is an unforgettable and instantly iconic masterpiece. Writer/director Luc Besson has given us a complex, seductive story of one young woman’s journey through life as a KGB assassin. Set in the last years of the Soviet Empire, the complex, cynical world of CIA/KGB duplicity and savagery is here in abundance.
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“Victor Victoria” is a Romeo-and-Juliet story. What’s different about this particular Romeo-and-Juliet story is it comes from the zany, inventive, brilliant imagination of Blake Edwards. Edwards is a master of appearances only semi-attached to reality. He does this superbly, and he does it to music. This musical is about two star crossed lovers in Paris in 1934. It was a time of opulence cheek by jowl with grinding poverty. It was a time of booze and rapidly changing morality. It was the Jazz Age.
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“The dead don’t die”? Of course, they do, and that is the point of this Jim Jarmusch paean to the great George Romero. Small town America is invaded by the undead and as Bill Murray’s deputy Adam Driver repeatedly says, “…this is not going to end well….”
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By Randy Pelish Just as politically correct superheroes have dominated mainstream cinemas for years cleansing the world of evil, the
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By Randy Pelish And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” That is exactly what
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By Norm Robins Video by Dana Nollsch The Edge Nightclub at the Peppermill was festooned everywhere with lavender. There were
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~By Randy Pelish~ The English have a long cinematic history of dramatizing the sordidness of post-World-War II life. Movies like
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By Norm Robins The Metropolitan Opera will broadcast encore performances of four operas this summer in HD, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette,
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By Randy Pelish Octavia Spencer in a career that spans 23 years may have played more nurses than any other
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Wild Horse Children’s Theater presents the Tony Award winning Broadway phenomenon, Disney’s Newsies in
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