“ALL IS LOST”: Is Your Big Gain!

This is going to be a tough year for Oscar voters in the Best Actor Category. Chewitel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave”, Matthew McCaunahay in “Dallas Buyers Club”, Hugh Jackman in “Prisoners”, and now 77 Year old Robert Redford in the best acting job of his...

“Prisoners”: Jackman’s Best!

“Prisoners”, directed beautifully by Denis Villeneuve, is a gritty child abduction thriller that coaxes first rate performances out of every cast member and grips us from beginning to end. Hugh Jackman plays Keller Dover, a suburban survivalist father of...

Big Movie Season ahead

The big movie season has begun, the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals set the tone for the rush to Oscar, and the rest of us will be enjoying the results in the next couple of months. By the way, I was in Venice, Italy in early September and believe it or not...

New CD: “Tim Russell-Man of A Thousand Voices”

Fans of A Prairie Home Companion know him as Garrison Keillor’s grumbling sidekick Dusty “The Lives of the Cowboys,” an array of wise-cracking wise-guys from the mean streets of “Guy Noir, Private Eye,” or Jim, the beleaguered husband from A Prairie Home Companion’s...

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