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WHEN I DROVE ACROSS COUNTRY – AND CRAZY HEART

By ns | Published: May 10, 2010
I crossed paths with Jeff Bridges once while jogging on San Vicente in Santa Monica. He was the gorgeous and fit film god.
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THE BLIND SIDE

By ns | Published: April 27, 2010
So this is the film that won Sandra Bullock the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and an Academy Award for Best Actress. . . . hmmm.
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THE HURT LOCKER

By ns | Published: April 2, 2010
The first film to win “Best Director” for a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, was a disappointment for me. In “The Hurt Locker,” the three elite dudes of the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit are in Baghdad when their team leader Sergeant Matt Thompson Guy Pearce (who established himself as a player in “LA Confidential” but is now on some unwatchable TV show) is killed in action.
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BROKEN EMBRACES

By ns | Published: March 15, 2010
This Spanish subtitled film wove its way into my consciousness via newspaper and magazine photographs of the scrumptious Penelope Cruz and her sexy Spanish director Pedro Almondóvar (referred do as “one of the most daring and accomplished filmmakers, etc. etc.). Cruz has been called Almondóvar’s “constant muse” in print more times than I can remember.
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A SINGLE MAN

By ns | Published: March 11, 2010
Nancy’s Movie Ratings •    Absolutely must see in the theater •    Must see on Demand •    Will see on an airplane if too tired to work •    Might see on Demand if nothing else and really too tired to read •    Might see if hospitalized for long recovery and have seen everything else •    Will [...]
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