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“Ricki and the Flash”
Meryl Streep is probably one of a handful of actors who can successful perform any role. From Holocaust survivor to…
From Book to Movie to Oscar
The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday morning and among the nominees across categories book adaptations abound. Best Picture nominees…
“Testament of Youth”
Set in Britain during the First World War, “Testament of Youth” is a moving, well acted film depicting the horrors…
“Dior and I”
The fashion house of Christian Dior represents the epitome of haute couture. Recently, Raf Simons assumed direction of this famous…
“Aloha”
“Aloha” is a film that you really want to be good. It seems to have all the ingredients for a…
“Woman in Gold”
Many movies have been made depicting the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II. “Woman in Gold” starring…
“Hector and the Search for Happiness”
Hector, Simon Pegg, is a successful London psychiatrist. His patients are all looking for happiness, and, of course, it’s Hector’s…
YA Books-to-Movies Adaptations Coming Summer 2015
The 4 most popular are: “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “Paper Towns,” “Diary of a…
“Unbroken”
Several years ago Tom Brokaw wrote a book calling the men and women who lived during the Second World War…
“The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”
Published in 2009, this absurd, laugh-out-loud book by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson, has now been made into a movie. The…
“Black or White”
Starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, “Black or White” is the story of a legal tug-of-war between two families over…
“Interstellar”
Director Christopher Nolan’s (Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception) latest foray into science fiction, in which the circumstances of a post-apocalyptic…