Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Mr. Angelina Jolie on the set of Burn After Reading
Open wide and say “Burn!”

Burn After Reading. Anyone who has read LiC for any length of time knows I’m completely in the tank for the Coen Brothers. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I loved this movie. It’s fair to [...]

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Rachel McAdams is the other woman and Chris Cooper
is the unfaithful husband in Married Life
It’s a solid week for Movies You May Have Missed. Here are a few more below-radar films that are coming to DVD on Tuesday.
Reprise (2006) ****
Here’s a great movie that I never got around to reviewing, but this is what I [...]

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Penélope Cruz in Elegy
Based on Philip Roth’s novel The Dying Animal, Isabel Coixet’s romantic drama Elegy stars Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh, a college literature professor who spent the sexual revolution of the ’60s married. Eventually abandoning his wife and son, he spent the ensuing years making up for lost time, jumping from one woman [...]

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This week’s Forecast starts off with a film that has already been released. Why? Because it’s one of the best movies of the year so far and it’s finally expanding from the two theaters in which it opened. If you’re wondering when I’m going to shut up about Man on Wire, the answer is: don’t [...]

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Rachel McAdams is the other woman and Chris Cooper
is the unfaithful husband in Married Life 
Married Life is difficult to categorize. It takes place in a post-war America at a kind of crossroads; an era before the sexual revolution blurred the lines between gender roles, but a time when some of the forces that led to the [...]

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