Posted on May 9, 2015 at 8:43 pm
My beautiful and brilliant daughter, Rachel Apatoff, is a costume designer in Hollywood and she was interviewed on NPR today. A woman who worked with costume legends Edith Head and Bob Mackie was selling some of her possessions in a garage sale. Rachel was one of a long line of people, mostly in the industry, …
Posted on May 8, 2015 at 3:14 pm
Happy 100th birthday to the writer/director/star of one of the greatest films of all time, Citizen Kane. Everyone should see that movie, and then everyone should see it again, listening to Roger Ebert’s shot-by-shot commentary, a master illuminating a master and together both of them illuminating the best and worst of the human spirit. Turner …
Posted on May 8, 2015 at 8:00 am
In honor of Mother’s Day, my ebook 50 Must-See Movies: Mothers will be free on Amazon through Monday, May 8-11, 2015. No relationship is more primal, more fraught, more influential, more worried over, more nourishing when good and more devastating when bad that our connection to our mothers. Mom inspires a lot of movies in …
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Posted on May 7, 2015 at 5:57 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, including some violent and sexual situations |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situations including gang rape and child molestation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Gang rape, child abuse and child homelessness, war scenes |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | May 8, 2015 |
Christina Noble is an Irish woman known as “Mama Tina” to thousands of Vietnamese children and their families. Her own childhood was one of poverty, abandonment, loss, and hardship, but her resilience and determination led her to give children half a world away the help she never had herself. This film tells her improbable story …
Posted on May 7, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon are both talented, beautiful actresses with savvy business acumen and strong entrepreneurial energy. Witherspoon’s accolades in 2014 included more than a Best Actress Oscar nomination for “Wild.” She also produced it, and another Oscar-nominated film, “Gone Girl.” Both Witherspoon and Vergara produced the vastly less ambitious “Hot Pursuit,” a high-concept, …
