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In “Just Go With It,” whose title really has to be read as a plea from the filmmakers, given all the leaps of faith they want you to take with a movie that’s really more like a loose improv session, or an extended party game ‘ oh wait, what was I saying’ Aniston plays Katherine, [...]

Movie: Mysteries of Lisbon Release Date: 2011 Directors: Raoul Ruiz Writers: Camilo Castelo Branco (book), Carlos Saboga Genres: Drama | Mystery Cast: Adriano Luz, Maria Jo’o Bastos and Ricardo Pereira Well this is pretty exciting stuff, four and a half hours of Raoul Ruiz back on top form. It’s an adaptation of an eponymous 19th [...]

It’s possible that new movie “Take Me Home Tonight” might actually have a good story buried somewhere beneath the bad acting, lousy writing, terrible slapstick, and jokes that fly like lead balloons, but director Michael Dowse never gives it a chance to emerge. In the entire first act, and well into the second, over the [...]

Dr. Jane Goodall is world famous for her ongoing research about the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, and for her ongoing nonprofit Roots and Shoots programs that bring education and eco friendly enterprise to people in need around the world. She is a diminutive woman whose accomplishments are larger than life. In [...]

The Interrupters Unlike many other socially engaged documentaries, the films of Steve James (Hoop Dreams) are more descriptive than prescriptive, exposing deep, intractable problems that may not have solutions, in spite of the best efforts of those concerned. James’ heartbreaking 2002 documentary Stevie relayed his own challenges and shortcomings as a Big Brother to a [...]