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American Gigolo kickstarted the Eighties. It made the Seventies suddenly – instantly – yesterday. Unkempt & brassy gave way to sleek & sophisticated, disco to New Wave. How? Gere wearing Armani, driving a Mercedes, listening to Blondie in Schrader’s glimmering California masterpiece, that’s…
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The Call Me intro defined the Eighties
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Smart, Sexy, Passionate, French. A great date movie, with smart, sexy dialogue that manages to outweigh the impressively passionate sex. This fine Parisian relationship film – French title Une liaison pornographique – has all the hallmarks of French filmic culture: sophisticated, non-impulsi…
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Easy Acceptance of Sexual Desire
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And So It Goes goes very well as a date night destination, especially for those of us who have received AARP junk mail. It’s a RomCom for the ages, the golden ages, which start pretty early these days. Diane Keaton & Michael Douglas are perfectly cast in this classic Rob Reiner RomCom. It’s …
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Modern Fam: Grandpa, Granddaughter, G...
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The first film made about the story of Anna Leonowens, the english school teacher who went to Siam to teach the king’s 67 children. Anna (Irene Dunne) is a strong willed woman who often butts heads with the King (Rex Harrison), but eventually becomes an important friend to his royal highness. T… |
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It hasn’t aged well, this Seventies icon. Maybe because Woody Allen self-parodied himself in real life, or Left Wing Manhattan neurotics are no longer exotic characters, or topical gags don’t have much shelf life. “La-dee-da, la-dee-da.” Sure it’s still a benchmark movie. The Academy doesn’t …
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Trailer for a Best Picture winner
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Quirky goodness from Mickey Rourke, Natt Wolff, Emma Roberts, and Sarah Silvermann. The cast works well together through an unlikely set of circumstances: namely a nerdy kid trying out for football and getting life advice from a career hit man. Mickey especially seems to have settled in to a g… |
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Hardly a chick flick, though focused predominantly on a doomed love affair and populated largely by talkative females, Atonement delivers its real wallop when it goes to war, offering a stunning battle scene not out of place in the first rank of war movies. A legitimate Best Picture candidat… |
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Choreography comes to car chases in Baby Driver. British director Edgar Wright’s benchmark blockbuster presents like Tarantino set to music. Nowhere to Run, Radar Love and Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up lead the 60s & 70s chestnuts that impart old-school cool into this new-school movie. Star…
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First Rate Musical Appreciation
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