Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A Massachusetts man who served 30 years in a state prison before a judge threw out his conviction has tentatively settled his federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Boston.
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
what a knockout little actress. 'scout' from 'to kill a mockingbird' is the deeply curious and wise daughter who is also the narrator of the film. genius actress kim stanley did the voiceover narration. crazy fact: mary made a total of four films. photos: mary badham/mary having fun with brilliant director robert mulligan blue drawing by pal shazar
The Phil Nugent Experience (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
For no reason I can articulate that would be flattering to myself as a person, I seem to get real excited whenever Turner Classic Movies finds something to show from the seventies that I've never even heard of, let alone seen before. This last happened almost six months ago with Robert Mulligan's The Pursuit of Happiness , and last night it happened again with Chandler (1971)) , a rare starring vehicle...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Born: 4 February, 1935, in Cincinnati. Died: 14 October, 2009, in North Carolina, aged 74.
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
when dylan sang those words it was funny. not so full of laughs is the film 'the other.' in the early sixties director robert mulligan made some classic movies including: 'to kill a mockingbird' 'inside daisy clover' 'love with the proper stranger' come the seventies he dipped back into the world of children and their fears. 1972's 'the other' is deeply moving. just remembering one boy saying, 'little...
Film Intuition: Review Database (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Part of Sony's Martini Movies* Collection Photo Slideshow Bookmark this on Delicious Print Page The films selected for the third wave of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's Martini Movies series (see official description in footnote below) didn't really seem to have a single unifying theme until I began writing about them. Honestly, come to think of it, they still don't but at least now I think I've...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Rent It I know I've written this before, but I do not "get" Sony's whole Martini Movies line of DVD releases - particularly with the two Vietnam-era youth pictures released under that label which I'm reviewing this week: Robert Mulligan's The Pursuit of Happiness and Anthony Newley's Summertree . On the back of the DVD case, Sony has printed up what I assume is the mission statement of their...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Skip It I ranted more fully about Sony's bogus Martini Movies brand in my review of Summertree , the other Vietnam-era youth picture I'm reviewing this week, but suffice it to say: there is nothing remotely "martini" or "swinging" or "camp" or "iconic" or any of the other b.s. marketing buzzwords Sony plastered on the DVD case, about The Pursuit of Happiness...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
The state judiciary has abandoned a proposal to fill law clerk jobs with newly hired private lawyers whose firms have pushed back their start dates because of the recession.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
A 19-year-old man from Courtenay, B.C., has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a vigilante killing sparked by an unproven allegation of rape.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
MADURAI: In what could be termed as a gesture that is going to have an enduring impact on a positive note in combating and eliminating needless blindness, an endowment was established to provide financial help for free supply of low vision ...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
filmcritic.com Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) .. William Wyler Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz Fiddler on the Roof (1971) .. Norman Jewison The Bank Dick (1940) .. Edward F. Cline It's a Gift (1934) .. Norman Z. McLeod Tillie and Gus (1933) .. Francis Martin Doctor Zhivago (1965) .. David Lean An...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
Sony is continuing to make it their year for DVD releases. Here are a few DVD and Blu-ray releases I uncovered this weekend. DVDs - The Buttercup Chain , 1970, d. Robert Ellis Miller, Sony, 8 September - Crank 2: High Voltage , 2009, d. Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, Lionsgate, also on Blu-ray, 8 September - Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing , 1973, d. Alan J. Pakula, Sony, 8 September, w. Maggie...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 21/06/2009
The Story: Robert Mulligan begins this scene outside a bedroom window, and returns us outside when it is done, right before "outside" forces set foot on the Finch stoop and alter the Family dynamic. Inside and outside are two different worlds in the film version of " To Kill a Mockingbird ." Inside is familial and warm . Outside, people are eccentric, and nature seems threatening...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 19/06/2009
Drugs could make a good girl go bad. Reese Witherspoon , who rose to stardom as a good girl in bubbly comedies Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama before winning an Oscar for the dramatic Walk the Line , will star in and produce Pharm Girl for Universal Pictures. Here's the "bad" part: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa , responsible for I Love You Philip Morris but best known for writing the...
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