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March 17, 2017
List: Beauty and the Beast
This week's big release is Disney's live action remake of "Beauty and the Beast" with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens. The animated Disney version is a classic, but there are some other versions worth watching as well. The classic fairy tale characters have been played by:
Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel (French version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thpf...
Rebecca de Mornay...
Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel (French version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thpf...
Rebecca de Mornay...
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St. Patrick’s Day Tribute: Irish Movie Stars
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with movies starring some of the greatest stars in movie history. If you haven't seen all of these, you deserve a pinch!
1. Maureen O'Hara -- her fiery red hair was made for technicolor and she was ideally cast opposite John Wayne in films like "The Quiet Man" and "McLintock." I especially loved her as the mom in "Miracle on 34th Street" and "The Parent Trap."
2. Colin Farrell -- he is electrifying as a bad guy but willing to go all out in a comedy like...
1. Maureen O'Hara -- her fiery red hair was made for technicolor and she was ideally cast opposite John Wayne in films like "The Quiet Man" and "McLintock." I especially loved her as the mom in "Miracle on 34th Street" and "The Parent Trap."
2. Colin Farrell -- he is electrifying as a bad guy but willing to go all out in a comedy like...
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March 16, 2017
Beauty and the Beast
Disney's live action remake of one of its most beloved animated fairy tales is every bit as enchanting as we could hope, gently updating and expanding the story to give the characters more depth and appeal and filling it with movie magic.
Emma Watson, best known as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, plays Belle, introduced in the opening musical number as a bit of an outsider in her small "provincial" French village. She loves to read, but seems to have read everything on the one shelf of...
Emma Watson, best known as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, plays Belle, introduced in the opening musical number as a bit of an outsider in her small "provincial" French village. She loves to read, but seems to have read everything on the one shelf of...
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MAD’s Al Jaffe on More than 50 Years of Cartooning
Vanity Fair pays tribute to MAD's Al Jaffe, creator of the iconic "fold-in" and the snarky "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," noting that he is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest-running cartoonist. I was happy to see that he told one of my favorite stories, about one of the legendary trips the MAD artists used to take together every year.
The first trip...
The first trip...
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What Movie Did International Fans Select as the All-Time Best?
Far from scientific, but still fun to read about: A survey, conducted just after the Oscars, collected responses to a single, fill-in-the-blank question from more than 10,500 movie watchers spanning five different languages in the UK, Europe, Japan, and the U.S., which were then machine translated and analyzed in minutes by OdinText, a text analytics...
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Beauty and the Beast: The Songs
Emma Watson, Josh Gad, and Luke Evans talk about singing in the new live action version of "Beauty and the Beast."...
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March 15, 2017
The Mindy Project: Imagine Mindy as a White Male
Mindy Kaling's "The Mindy Project" has a sharp season ender as Mindy, applying for a job, gets to see how her life would be different if she were white and male. The white male version of Mindy is played by "Veronica Mars" bro Ryan Hansen, and as the white male version of herself, Mindy learns (as Eddie Murphy did in his famous SNL sketch) that in a job interview, no one asks a man about balancing work and home responsibilities.
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Trailer: Coco from Disney-Pixar
Coming this fall from Disney-Pixar, "Coco" is the story of a 12-year-old boy named Miguel who sets off a chain of events relating to a century-old mystery, leading to an extraordinary family reunion. The voices include Benjamin Bratt and Gael Garcia Bernal....
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The Outsiders Turns 50
It has been 50 years since S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was just 16 years old. The book has become a classic for generations of teenagers ever since. Its gritty depiction of the world of the Greasers and the Socs inspired a new authenticity in the the genre of YA literature and some controversy as well -- it is still banned in some places for its depiction of teen smoking, drinking, and violence.
The 1983...
The 1983...
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March 14, 2017
Movies for Women’s History Month 2017
Check out my previous suggestions for Women's History Month, with feature films and documentaries about great women.
It's also a great excuse to learn about pioneering women in the movie industry including:
Mabel Normand, Dorothy Arzner, and Ida Lupino, among the first women...
It's also a great excuse to learn about pioneering women in the movie industry including:
Mabel Normand, Dorothy Arzner, and Ida Lupino, among the first women...
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