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Critics Choice Awards 2015

Posted on January 16, 2015 at 9:45 am

Sweetest moment of the Critics Choice Awards last night: when Emily Blunt was accepting her award for Best Actress in an Action/Sci-Fi Movie, her husband John Krasinski ran out from backstage, where he was waiting to present an award, to give her a congratulatory kiss. I also loved her comment that it was good to …

A Most Violent Year

Posted on January 15, 2015 at 5:58 pm

B+
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language and some violence
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking, smoking
Violence/ Scariness: Crime and violence including guns, suicide
Diversity Issues: A theme of the movie
Date Released to Theaters: January 16, 2015
Date Released to DVD: April 6, 2015
Amazon.com ASIN: B00RNELG5E

After three very different movies, we know two things about writer/director J.C. Chandor. First, he is already one of today’s most original, thought-provoking directors, with a remarkably mature and insightful eye, and second, he is vitally interested in the survival instincts of characters who are under the direst of pressures. His “Margin Call” is the …

Spare Parts

Posted on January 15, 2015 at 5:58 pm

It really happened. Four undocumented high school kids from the poorest of communities took on the most brilliant engineering students from the country’s top colleges in a robotics competition and won. The contest results were one in a million, but once it happened, the movie version was inevitable. George Lopez produced the film and stars …

Oscar Nominations 2015: Surprises, Disappointments, Predictions

Posted on January 15, 2015 at 10:17 am

This year’s Oscar nominations are out!  Most of the expected nominees made it, but there were some surprises and disappointments, especially the omission of the Roger Ebert documentary “Life Itself” and the animated mega-hit “The LEGO Movie,” both of which I expected not just to be nominated but to take home the award.  It was …