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December 2012 Archives

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With All This Talk About Cliffs….

posted by Nell Minow

I keep thinking of this!  A fabulous movie moment from screenwriter William Goldman and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford.  

The Best Deleted Scenes: Total Film

posted by Nell Minow

Total Film has a great list of the 50 best deleted scenes, and what kind of impact they would have on the storyline.  It’s a lot of fun to look at deleted scenes on DVDs, but it is usually easy [...]

Free This Weekend: Ebook About Parenting

posted by Nell Minow

This weekend only, get Annie Fox’s ebook, Teaching Kids to Be Good People: Progressive Parenting for the 21st Century for free on Amazon. “Not all teachers are parents, but all parents are teachers. When we teach kids to be good [...]

The Best (And Worst) Movies of 2012 — Plus Best Docs, Best for Families, Most Fun, and More

posted by Nell Minow

My list of the best movies of 2012:   Zero Dark Thirty Argo Lincoln Beasts of the Southern Wild Brave Silver Linings Playbook Middle of Nowhere The Avengers ParaNorman Runners-up: Life of Pi, Moonrise Kingdom, Arbitrage, The Sessions, Looper, Skyfall, [...]

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Jerry Lewis is Back (in France) With a New Movie -- A Drama
They really do love Jerry Lewis in France, so where better to premiere his first movie in 23 years than Cannes?  The 87-year-old legendary funny man appears in a drama called "Max Rose," about an elderly widower, co-starring with Claire Bloom.  The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive clip.

posted 3:41:59pm May. 20, 2013 | read full post »

Opening This Week: Three Big Movies for a Three-Day Weekend
Three big movies are opening up this week to make sure there's something for everyone this holiday weekend. "Hangover III" is the final chapter in the saga of the Wolf Pack, with Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis making many more bad decisions.  Heather Graham and Ken Jeong return.

posted 8:00:06am May. 20, 2013 | read full post »

See "Star Trek: Into Darkness" Stars in This Underrated British Gem
Long before they starred in this week's "Star Trek: Into Darkness," Benedict Cumberbatch and Alice Eve appeared in the sweet indie romantic comedy "Starter for 10," also featuring James McAvoy ("X-Men First Class") and Rebecca Hall ("Iron Man 3"). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5JwoOHPm

posted 3:59:12pm May. 19, 2013 | read full post »

New DVD Giveaway: Word Girl vs. The Energy Monster
One of my favorite television series for kids is the wonderful PBS show "Word Girl," and this new release is one of the best: Wordgirl vs the Energy Monster. WORDGIRL and her sidekick CAPTAIN HUGGY FACE fight the good fight against dastardly villains and bad vocabulary in this thrilling collection!

posted 8:00:22am May. 19, 2013 | read full post »

Disney Lets Merida Be Merida After All
Did the folks at Disney even watch "Brave?"  One of the great strengths of Pixar's first movie starring a female character (and its first originally written by a woman, Brenda Chapman, though she was replaced by a male director) was that its feisty heroine, Merida, looked like a real girl and not a

posted 8:00:52am May. 18, 2013 | read full post »


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