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American Hustle–a Movie Review

By: Mary Fran Bontempo The 70's never looked so good. In the heavily Oscar nominated film, American Hustle, stars Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence make 70's era polyester look positively glamorous. The slinky, clingy, cut down-to-there fashions sported by the movie's two leading ladies would make anyone who didn't live through the 70's think the decade was loaded with fashion highlights. It wasn't. Seventies' attire, although high in glitz, was generally cheap, poorly [...]

2018-10-30T09:44:27-04:00January 17th, 2014|0 Comments
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Let the Awards Season Begin!

By: Mary Fran Bontempo It's that time of year again, when Hollywood spends the next few months in a stupor of self-indulgent self-congratulation, reminding the common folk of just how amazingly awesome they are. (And we aren't.) Wednesday, it was The People's Choice Awards, a mish-mash of stuff covering movies, TV, music, individuals--in short, anyone or anything they can throw a statue at who they think will show up to accept it. Fans [...]

2018-10-30T09:44:34-04:00January 10th, 2014|0 Comments
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Judy Dench in Philomena

By: Chrysa Smith Oprah Winfrey has said it. Loosely translated, it is something like this: 'If you're a woman born in the United States, you are lucky.'  Visually circumnavigating the globe, I would have to agree with her. But I would add that even if born in the US, depending upon the era and your culture, your luck might still run out. Judy Dench wonderfully portrays such drama in Philomena--the story of an [...]

2018-10-30T09:44:48-04:00January 2nd, 2014|0 Comments
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Saving Mr. Banks–A Jolly Good Holiday Treat!

By: Mary Fran Bontempo It's not quite Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but it's pretty close. Saving Mr. Banks, one of the Disney Studio's offerings for the holiday season (the animated Frozen being the other), is the tale of how the magical, whimsical, delightful film, Mary Poppins, almost didn't get made. P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins and author of the series of books depicting the character, resisted the wooing of one Walt Disney for the better [...]

2018-10-30T09:45:04-04:00December 27th, 2013|0 Comments
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