The year in review, part I: The best movies of 2012
2012 Best movies: Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, The Dark Knight Rises, Argo, Flight, Les Misérables.
2012 Best movies: Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, The Dark Knight Rises, Argo, Flight, Les Misérables.
The year in review: The best movies of 2012. Part 2: Marley, A Royal Affair, Middle of Nowhere, Pusher, Headhunters, Seven Psychopaths.
The year in review: The best movies of 2012. Part 3: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Hunter, Snowman’s Land, Hysteria, Happy New Year, Heleno.
“Heleno” is the story of Brazilian soccer star, Heleno de Freitas (1920–1959), and his meteoric rise to fame, then his equally quick plummet. The stunning and mesmerizing lead in the movie, Rodrigo Santoro, won Best Actor in Lima Latin American Film Festival and Havana Film Festival. Santoro’s Heleno grabs hold in ways reminiscent of Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull.” This is a nuanced performance conveying the rage, arrogance and addictions that fueled Heleno’s tragic demise.
December 2012 movies! read about Zero Dark Thirty, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Django Unchained, Happy New Year, Heleno, The Guilt Trip, Lay the Favorite, Monsters Inc 3D. Includes photos, slideshow and video.
Just in time for the Thanksgiving Weekend, “Life Of Pi” in 3D hits theaters. Ang Lee(“Brokeback Mountain”) directs this action adventure and CGI stunner about a 16-year-old Indian boy, Pi Patel (played by newcomerSuraj Sharma), who is trapped at sea on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. It’s a story of faith; a journey of a … Read more
Q&A with Ciaran Foy, writer and director of the horror movie, “Citadel.” Plot Synopsis: Tommy Cowley (Aneurin Barnard) is a young father suffering from severe agoraphobia after a brutal attack by a gang.
Author Patrick Robinson’s latest international thriller is the book, “Power Play.” There’s an exciting exchange in the prologue between a Mossad agent and a Russian Navy Commander-turned spy. For anybody who remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis, the details will take you backwards and forwards simultaneously, which is a good trick for a writer.
Nadia Ilse, 14, received free plastic surgery from the Little Baby Face Foundation and Dr. Thomas Romo, III for a deviated septum, hemifacial microsomia and an otoplasty for her ears that stuck way out. She was unmercifully bullied in school and having thoughts of suicide.
Author and animal advocate Jennifer Skiff is a director of Pilots N Paws in the U.S. and a trustee of the Dogs’ Refuge Home in Australia. Her second book, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man’s Best Friend (Simon & Shuster, October 23, 2012), is now available. The book is a collection of transformational stories about spiritual experiences between people and pooches.