FREEDOM WRITERS Erin Gruwell is an idealistic high school English teacher in Long Beach, California. Racial tensions are at a fever pitch after the riots that followed the arrest and beating of Rodney King. Erin tells her students about the factors that led the Nazis to scapegoat Jews for problems. When she realizes these youngsters […]
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WATCH NOW GANGS OF NEW YORK The large obsessive talents of director Martin Scorsese are turned loose on his favorite subject (New York), this time the immigrant Irish trying to survive amid mid 19th century poverty and hostility. The result is photogenic, exciting and disappointing. Gangs is not a documentary or docudrama, although historical figures
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Field Details Movie Name SECONDHAND LIONS (2003) Director Tim McCanlies Writer Tim McCanlies Lead Actor Haley Joel Osment Cast Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, Nicky Katt, Josh Lucas Genre Comedy, Drama, Family Release Date September 19, 2003 (United States) Duration 1h 51m (111 min) Budget $30 million Language English IMDb Rating
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WATCH NOW THE DARK KNIGHT Gotham City has made great strides against the mob since Batman Begins (2005), thanks to Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart, Erin Brockovich), the new district attorney, who has Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mona Lisa Smile) at his side. Rachel, an assistant district attorney, is the former girlfriend of Bruce Wayne. As
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WATCH NOW DELIVER US FROM EVIL Filmmaker Amy Berg has created a harrowing, heartbreaking, dramatically powerful documentary about Father Oliver O’Grady, described on the film’s Web site as “the most notorious pedophile in the history of the Catholic Church.” (Berg assures me personally that everything in the film is documented.) This Irish-born priest ministered in
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WATCH NOW THE DEPARTED Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Evermore in this world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.” This film is a testament to just how infested human societies can become with rats, both large and small, old and young. Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) is an Irish-American crime boss
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WATCH NOW THE DEVIL’S OWN is a humane thriller based on the idea that a law-abiding American-Catholic policeman offers room and board to a young Irish immigrant who is actually a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. Both actors (Harrison Ford as the cop, Brad Pitt as the stranger) are loaded with charisma. Pitt’s character has killed 24
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WATCH NOW Donnie Brasco The hero in this film is really a cop who pretends to join the Mob to get otherwise unavailable evidence. “Brasco” happens to be the assumed name of real-life F.B.I. agent Joseph Pistone, whose book provided the basis for this superb screenplay by Paul Attanasio (Quiz Show). The serious Mob movie
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WATCH NOW It’s awfully long, but The Day of the Jackal (which inspired a remake almost 25 years later) is a terribly compelling look at the machinations of an assassin and the military/police machinations that must occur in order to apprehend him. Or, more to the point, the machinations of 1973, before the dawn of
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WATCH NOW Steve Martin’s homage to the 1940s and 50s is a one joke movie that wears thin after 45 minutes (in which Martin inserts himself into classic film noirs, often in drag, where he turns the melodrama into comedy). Fortunately, the laughs are plentiful enough throughout to make Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid worthwhile
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