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“ The Lost King” - ( PG13; 1 hour, 48 minutes ) - In 2012, after having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian,...
“The Quiet Girl” - (PG13; 1 hour, 34 minutes) - Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to...
Director Stephen Soderbergh remarked that casting Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock (who, in the novel “The Graduate” on which the movie was based, was tall, blonde, and athletic) was a decision that changed the way Hollywood defined leading men...
The plot of 1962’s “The Manchurian Candidate” revolved around a communist plan to assassinate the American President. When, a year later, after that event actually occurred, the film was pulled from distribution for almost 25 years. Rumors abounded...
I did not remember that the movie “Charade” opened just a couple of weeks after John F. Kennedy’s’ assassination. In his 2013 The Guardian article, Michael Newton writes, “During ‘the dark days’ after JFK's death, ‘Charade’ offered Cary Grant and...