Month: December 2008

the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Wisegal’

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The description of this just gets better the longer it goes on: Loyal to the Family. Devoted to her own. Alyssa Milano stars as Patty Montanari, a tough Brooklyn widow and mother who takes a job working for a local crime family and soon becomes romantically involved with a married mob captain (Jason Gedrick of … more…

my week at the movies: ‘The Wrestler,’ ‘Seven Pounds,’ ‘Nothing But the Truth,’ ‘Cadillac Records’ (plus ‘Gran Torino’ and ‘Benjamin Button’)

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Last week was an exercise in frustration in getting to actually see all the movies I need to see this crazy awards season. Not only did I not get to see Gran Torino as I expected I would, I also ended up postponing my screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I’ll see both … more…

trailer break: ‘Cadillac Records’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… You know what Beyoncé singing Etta James makes me think? It makes me think, Why does Beyoncé’s music kinda suck if she can sing like that? It makes me think, How come the music was so much better half a century ago than it is today? … more…

Milk (review)

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It opens with archival footage of police raids on gay bars, grainy black-and-white stuff that’s like a grim glimpse into a distant dreadful past, like the 1950s and 60s were another planet, and you think, Geez, people really worried *that much* about who was sleeping with whom?