How do you solve a problem like J. Edgar?

By Edward Copeland After watching J. Edgar , I prepared to write my usual review, assessing the film overall for its direction, writing, p...

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Technology as Savior and Curse

By J.D. For more than two decades, director Steven Soderbergh has gone back and forth from independent to studio films with personal, experi...

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"If You Want to See the Girl Next Door, Go Next Door"

By Eddie Selover More than anything else, it was a book that turned me into a movie buff: David Shipman’s The Great Movie Stars: The Golden ...

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When that line started getting fuzzy

By Edward Copeland As you idly flip past ads for TV shows with shrieking housewives, young Jerseyites, the home lives of aging rock stars a...

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14 months after Katrina (in Treme time)

By Edward Copeland New Orleans Police Lt. Terry Colson (David Morse) told civil rights attorney Toni Bernette (Melissa Leo) in the fifth e...

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Chickens, coloraturas & class

By Edward Copeland Having watched Todd Haynes' phenomenal five-part miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce twice (and in the case of ...

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Mildred Pierce Parts Four and Five

BLOGGER'S NOTE : This recap contains spoilers, so if you haven't seen Parts Four and Five yet, move along. There will be a final pos...

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