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Manufactured Landscapes - For decades, as we've watched the price of gas go up and down at the pump, we’ve been fixated on oil as the scarce resource. It’s not. Water is. “Scientists
Margin Call - "Margin Call" was conceived in the throes of the 2008-2009 Wall Street crisis. Firms like Lehman had been coining fortunes packaging subprime mortgages. Individually, many of them were handed out
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Robert Altman liked to say he hated Westerns. He didn't much enjoy working with Warren Beatty. He was silent about directing Julie Christie. He probably disliked her too. But in the
Michael Clayton - "When somebody says it’s not about the money,” H.L. Mencken wrote, “it’s about the money.” John Barnett, a prominent Boeing whistle-blower, testified last week about the company’s safety policies at its 787
Million Dollar Baby - Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood Ever since the credits rolled after "Million Dollar Baby," I've been wanting to write about it. But all
Movies for a summer weekend when there’s nothing new to see - Going to the movies this weekend? To see what? The $200 million, DOA sequel to “Independence Day?” Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson in a film titled, surely ironically, “Central Intelligence?”
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - “A lot of our problems today are psychological,” John McCain said in April 2008. Then Phil Gramm called America’s troubles a “mental recession”. More than a year later, after enduring the
My Neighbor Totoro - When I met our then eight-and-a-half year-old at the camp bus, I'd ask about her day. A pointless exercise. Perfunctory answers escaped her ecosystem. But not much more. This is, after
Napoleon Dynamite - If you've seen it, you know why "chatting online with babes" or working on "killer dance moves" or "the 24-piece set" are punch lines. As is "pinata." And "Tetherball." And that
NO - In 1973, in a coup supported by the CIA, the Chilean military overthrew the country’s first Socialist government. President Salvador Allende committed suicide (or was killed); Augusto Pinochet, General of
Off the Map - Starring the great Joan Allen, with Sam Elliott. An independent film, set in New Mexico in l974. Directed by Campbell Scott, an actor we adore --- if you haven't seen "The
Office Space - Do you know about “TPS reports?” Do you know the importance of a red stapler? If you can answer YES to both questions, you are smiling at the memory of “Office
Once - There are movies that friends tell you about, and if those friends are forceful or more people make the same recommendation, you rouse yourself and stream it or
Oscar Special: Best Foreign Films - Despite the absence of nominations for African American films and actors, I’ll watch the Academy Awards. For Chris Rock. And because a few of the films I liked – “The
Painters Painting - Guest Butler Jane Chafin is director of the Offramp Gallery in Pasadena, California. She has worked as a registrar at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and written for the Los
Rainy Day Butler: 9 films for winter’s first storm. Ryan O’Neal. A Hanukah story. And more… - First, something NOT for you --- here’s where much of America’s online attention will be focused: the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI trailer. It has 135 million views in
Ricky Gervais - There is no awards show sillier than the Golden Globes --- it’s not quite possible to buy a nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, though wags like to say
She Said - Neither of the two best movies I saw last year was nominated for an Academy Award. One is "Emily the Criminal" (New York Times review. To watch the preview, click
