My favorite comedy/drama of the year has arrived this weekend: “Me and Earl And The Dying Girl”. It’s a compilation of themes from a number of successful coming of age/ teen cancer films, like “The Fault in Our Stars”, but none of those had the style and wit of this...

This is as close as I'll ever get to being a Graduation Commencement Speaker. https://youtu.be/jLlzptQZmgk

At 5:26 Dusty departs to form an "non-partisan relationship" with a  dance hall floozy, while Sue serenades the saloon with her Primary wishes, setting the stage for a visit from Gov. Walker and Billionaire Charles Koch.

http://youtu.be/x8tvxheO0Es Here's my Speaker John Boehner Impression.

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My Oscar Predictions for 2015   Another good year for movies, although some surprises among the Oscar nominations, The Academy, for the most part, ignored the big action blockbusters in favor of character driven dramas. The big exception is “American Sniper”...

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Here's my new voiceover for a new Omega Watch.

Fans of Benedict Cumberbatch, the thinking person’s sex symbol, adds another great performance to a canon that includes his remarkable Sherlock Holmes, by inhabiting the life of Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician who helped usher in the computer age by breaking...

  Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” finally hit the big screen on Christmas Day, some 27 years after it hit the Broadway Stage. I’m guessing the wait will seem worth it for fans of the musical. Rob Marshall, who had such a smash with his Oscar winning...

I’m very surprised at the lack of Buzz for Angelina Jolie’s film " Unbroken”, based on the amazing WWII survival story of Louis Zamperini, as told in the best selling book by Laura Hillenbrand. Ethan and Joel Coen deliver a memorable screenplay and Jolie does a...

Mark Wahlberg and director Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) have crafted a remake of the 1974 James Caan movie of the same title, which will thrill lovers of intense dialogue full of literary imagery, in other words, English Majors. Wahlberg plays a...

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Some of my favorite summer movies this year include Richard Linklater's "Boyhood", an amazing accomplishment, using the same cast members to tell a vibrant family story over a span of 12 years, it's fascinating to watch the development of Eller Coltrane, as an actor,...

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Here's a bit we did this week on "A Prairie Home Companion" http://youtu.be/_qTYSfKrQD0

Had the pleasure of appearing on the KARE 11 Saturday Morning Show on the day before the Oscars Show. Check it out and see how I do tonite. http://www.kare11.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/03/01/tim-russell-oscar-predictions/5922707/ .

Here's a link to my appearance on KARE 11's 4PM News today. http://www.kare11.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/02/17/tim-russell-gives-oscar-picks/5559481/

It was a great year for movies, stories based on mostly true stories, historical dramas, spectacular technical achievements, some of the best performances in all categories, and no shoe-in any of those categories. Here are my picks for the 2014 Academy Awards. BEST...

In 1998 I had the honor of interviewing Shirley Temple Black. She was a very nice interviewee, she talked about her childhood as one of the top Box office star of the 1930's with great candor, as detailed in her autobiography, "Child Star". After she retired in 1950,...

George Clooney has given us some fine cinema as a director, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and "Good Night, and Good Luck" come to mind, but "Monuments Men" is a serious misfire by the film's genial actor, co-writer, director. Clooney has assembled an all-star...

Writer Joshua Brunsting recently wrote an article about why Famed director Robert Altman's last film, "A Prairie Home Companion", written by Garrison Keillor, should get the Blueray treatment: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AfA24Q-eo "Over any given span of time,...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – Many people will be hitting movie theaters over Christmas vacation. Prairie Home Companion regular and film critic Tim Russell sat down with Pat Evans on KARE 11 News@4 with his reviews of what's worth your time and money at the box office....