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Home Again ** (2017, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, Nat Wolff, Pico Alexander, Jon Rudnitsky, Candice Bergen, Lake Bell) – Movie Review 

Reese Witherspoon plays 40-year-old single mom Alice, who has just left her English husband Austen (Michael Sheen) behind in New York and re-located to her late Oscar-winning film director father’s lovely house in Los Angeles. […]

Oct, 01

Rupture ***½ (2016, Noomi Rapace, Michael Chiklis, Peter Stormare, Lesley Manville, Kerry Bishé) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Steven Shainberg’s 2016 movie is really good stuff, engrossing and original, pitched successfully somewhere between a thriller, sci-fi and a horror movie. So it is satisfyingly different from your average chiller movie. Noomi Rapace […]

Nov, 04

The Rewrite **** (2014, Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

Hugh Grant is back being funny as Keith Michaels, a burnt-out Hollywood-based Oscar-winning Best Screenplay writer, whose agent finds him some desperately needed work teaching a screenwriting course at a college on the East Coast. It’s Binghamton, […]

Oct, 09

Pay it Forward **** (2000, Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Jon Bon Jovi, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Film Review 1167

Director Mimi Leder’s 2000 fine, good-spirited drama stars Haley Joel Osment as 11 and a half year-old Trevor McKinney, the young son of a working, single mom (Helen Hunt), who begins seventh grade at school […]

May, 02

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