‘The Ghost Writer’, Starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan — a Lesser Known Polanski Picture
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‘The Ghost Writer’, Starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan — a Lesser Known Polanski Picture

A gripping murder mystery involving an English ex-Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan), his wife (Olivia Williams), mistress (Kim Cattrall), and a recently deceased ghostwriter assigned to revise his memoirs. Roman Polanski directed 'The Ghost Writer' (titled 'The Ghost' in UK & Ireland).  The replacement (Ewan McGregor) reluctantly takes the job, quickly becoming entangled in a web of lies, deceit, and a…
Coupling, a Saucy Britcom that Does Not Disappoint (Valentine’s Day)
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Coupling, a Saucy Britcom that Does Not Disappoint (Valentine’s Day)

Valentine’s Day – is it a commercialized holiday with the sole purpose of making single people feel inadequate?  Or is it the one day a year that true love blossoms like a “night blooming Cereus”. Honestly, I don’t have an answer. But I can suggest an awesome Britcom1 that follows the misadventures-in-love of a quartet of friends who hail from…
Gladiator II Directed by Ridley Scott (an Upcoming Oscar Contender)
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Gladiator II Directed by Ridley Scott (an Upcoming Oscar Contender)

Book I:1-32 The nature of the war "I sing of a worse than civil war, of war fought between kinsmen over Pharsalia’s plains, of wickedness deemed justice; of how a powerful people turned their own right hands against themselves; of strife within families; how, with the first Triumvirate broken, the forces of the quivering globe contended in mutual sinfulness; standard…