Posted by James Brown on Monday, December 23, 2013,
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Out of Africa
Directed By: Sydney Pollack Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, and Klaus Maria Brandauer
Don't take too much stock in which film wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Oscars are political, and the winners often reflect this rather than a more qualitative assessment of the films released each year. Given this, the cinematic popularity contest often gets it wrong. How else could you make the case that Slumdog Millionaire topped The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (and ... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Thursday, May 17, 2012,
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Death Becomes Her
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis
Hollywood has always been obsessed with beauty, whether it's real or not. That's why Los Angeles is the home of many, many plastic surgeons. Though these surgeons are well paid, I would imagine they have to march to the tunes of their often-wealthy clientele. Until I saw Robert Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her, I never thought about how nerve-wrecking that could be at times.
