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A bouncy little screwball romance, "Miss Pettigrew" is a fizzy
cocktail of a movie, set in Depression-era London, where the beautiful people
dance away in fabulous fashions and decadent distraction. Frances McDormand is
the dowdy Guinevere Pettigrew, a buttoned-down yet free-thinking governess whose
unorthodox ways have landed her on the bread lines and, in a desperate act of
reference-poaching, in the employ of a dizzy American chanteuse (the
irrepressibly seductive Amy Adams) who is sleeping her way ...Read More
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| Street Kings |
Keanu Reeves is a brutal bulldog of a Los Angeles cop who is set loose on
high-profile cases by a glory-hound commander (Forest Whitaker), a ruthlessly
ambitious player who devours the media attention and rides the success to
promotion. With the pedigree carried by this drama of corruption and cover-ups
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| ZZ Top: Live From Texas |
It's tricky with a band like ZZ Top. On the one hand, they're a bit silly
with their beards and their hand gestures--the gimmickry is their signature
element at this point. In 30-odd years of being a band, they don't appear to
have evolved in the slightest. On the other hand: they don't appear to have
evolved in the slightest in 30 years Read More
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| 6 Films to Keep You Awake |
If you're tired of the unending sequels, remakes and knockoffs
of American and Japanese horror films, take a look at the industry coming out of
Spain, where guilt and ghosts and fear of the devil all seem quite alive in the
21st century. The six films in this three-disc collection, all made for Spanish
TV, are not ... Read More
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