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Nonnas Review: Comfort Food and Familiar Laughs

Caillou Pettis — Fri, 09 May 2025 18:10:34 +0000

In Stephen Chbosky’s Nonnas, the kitchen is warm, the sauce is simmering, and the matriarchs are plenty. This sentimental comedy, written by Liz Maccie, brings together Vince Vaughn, a cast of legendary actresses, and an irresistibly cozy concept: a grieving man opens an Italian restaurant staffed entirely by real nonnas — wise, feisty grandmothers with ...

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How To Make Money Selling Drugs trailer

Anthony Whyte — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:49 +0000

A shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is an insider’s guide to the violent but extremely lucrative drug industry. Told from the perspective of former drug dealers, and featuring interviews with rights advocates Russell Simmons, Susan Sarandon, ...

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The Big Wedding Featurette

Anthony Whyte — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:34:44 +0000

With an all-star cast led by Robert DeNiro, Katherine Heigl, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, with Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams, THE BIG WEDDING is an uproarious romantic comedy about a charmingly modern family trying to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco. ...

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“The Company You Keep”: Robert Redford & Cast Talk about 1960’s Politics, Journalism, Making Movies

Paula Schwartz — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:17:34 +0000

Robert Redford directs and also stars in the political suspense thriller, “The Company You Keep,” his first starring role since “An Unfinished Life” in 2005. Last Monday, Redford, Jackie Evancho, Stanley Tucci and Brit Marling, appeared at a press conference at the Parker Meridien Hotel to talk about their new film. Redford, now ...

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After release there’s a new UK trailer for Dwayne Johnson’s “Snitch”

Anthony Whyte — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:49:36 +0000

In the fast-paced action thriller SNITCH, Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney ...

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Trailer: Robot and Frank

Anthony Whyte — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:05:15 +0000

ROBOT & FRANK is a buddy caper. Set in the near future, aging curmudgeon and retired jewel thief Frank (Frank Langella) lives a solitary life until his son (James Marsden) installs a caretaker robot; against he and his daughter’s (Liv Tyler) wishes. The robot upends Frank’s lonely life – filled only with books ...

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Trailer: Shia Lebouf and Robert Redford team in ‘The Company You Keep’

Anthony Whyte — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:05:15 +0000

asd A single father’s upper-middle class life as a lawyer in upstate New York is shattered when his past as a radical activist member of the Weather Underground is revealed and he is accused of having been the triggerman at a deadly bank robbery years before. Forced to go on the lam, the ...

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New images and trailer of Robert DeNiro in ‘The Big Wedding’

Anthony Whyte — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:50:17 +0000

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Trailer: Dwayne Johnson starring in “Snitch”

Anthony Whyte — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:33:09 +0000

Action superstar Dwayne Johnson headlines this fast-paced thriller as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a crime and is sentenced to 10 years in jail. In order to clear his son’s name, he dangerously goes undercover and risks everything, including his own life, to reduce his son’s sentence. The ensemble cast ...

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“Cloud Atlas” ambitious production an anomaly for the mainstream studio system

Kenny Miles — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:51:42 +0000

When Cloud Atlas opens today, many movies goers will have a lot to digest from the truly ambitious and epic film. At nearly a three hour running time, viewers are transported and transfixed to another parallel universe the filmmakers created. The movie stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry as they play various characters whose ...

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Arbitrage: Richard Gere’s Comeback and Box Office Success Beyond VOD.

Kenny Miles — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:07:25 +0000

One of the big box office surprises from this weekend was the success of the corporate finance thriller “Arbitrage.” It grossed an estimated $2.07 million at under 200 locations (around a $10,500 per-theater average). What makes this hit bypass many pundits, even me who calls out box office surprise hits left and right, is ...

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