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Review: Nightcrawler
Ever wonder while watching your local newscast to what lengths the paparazzi would go through to get the perfect picture or footage for the right price? Nightcrawler throws back…
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Christmas Top Ten Throwback #10: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
There are many Christmas stories that air during this time of year, but my all time favorite is How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Why? It’s like a modern spin…
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Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
I have to say, I didn’t quite know what to expect with this one. I will say…I was pleasantly entertained and surprised. Having traveled extensively throughout my lifetime, I have…
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Christmas Top Ten Throwback #9: It’s A Wonderful Life
Produced and directed by Frank Capra, the film is based on the short story "The Greatest Gift", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945.…
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Christmas Top Ten Throwback #8: Miracle on 34th Street
First released as The Big Heart in the United Kingdom, in 1947, Miracle on 34th Street was written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies.…
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Christmas Top Ten Throwback #7: HOME ALONE
Written by the late, great John Hughes (who brought us Ferris Bueller and 16 Candles), Home Alone was the highest-grossing comedy of all time. Home Alone proved so popular that it…
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Christmas Top Ten Throwback #6: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
In 1970 they produced the stop motion special...Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town. The film stars actor Fred Astaire as the narrator S.D. Kluger, Mickey Rooney as Kris Kringle/Santa Claus,…
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Review: UNBROKEN
On the anniversary of one the most prolific activist of our time…Nelson Mandela, I sit watching Unbroken. As I view this masterpiece, I am…
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Review: INTO THE WOODS
While I was in New York performing Avenue Q on Broadway, I had an audition for a revival of another Sondheim musical “Putting it Together” and had the opportunity…
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Christmas Top Ten Throwback #5: White Christmas
Within the film, a number of soon-to-be famous performers appear. Dancer Barrie Chase appears un-billed, as the character Doris Lenz ("Mutual, I'm sure!"). Future Academy Award winner George Chakiris also…


























