Top 10 Favorite Irish Actors working in Hollywood today

Happy St Patrick's Day everybody! According to this Guinness Store House sign, everyone's Irish today 😀 I hope you don't mind me resurrecting this oldie-but-goodie list I did a while back, but I've been meaning to update 'em for some time. This list is limited to performers born and bred in Ireland (at least for …

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Superlative Casts Wasted In Mediocre Films – In the Valley of Ellah, The Ides of March & Margin Call

Greetings all and sundry! Between bouts of less than strenuous snow shoveling. I've taken refuge within the recent fare of The Sundance and Sony Channels. To acclimate myself with some interesting contemporary offerings. And maintain a sense of loyalty to Julian of Dirty With Class. And his suggestion that I sometime stray from my comfort …

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10 Favorite Romantic Films Directed by Women

Firstly, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, everyone! I wish you love, good health and good movies... today and every single day of the year 😀 Now, this list is long overdue, but lately I've been thinking about all the romantic films that I love... and you know what, a lot of them are directed by female directors! …

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10 Movie/TV Clichés That Need to Die A Horrible Death!

Greetings all and sundry! While taking advantage of the intermittently snowy, yet not disastrous winter weather and snow visiting the mid Atlantic east coast. I've taken to television, DVDs and the occasional film to develop a list of annoying clichés. That try as one might to avoid or ignore. Keep returning to the scenes of …

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In *honor* of Hollywood ‘dump months’ – 6 films that are excruciating to sit through

So now that all of the holidays and prestige films have been released, Hollywood will dump films that they're not too proud of in the months of January and February. In fact, the term 'dump months' is an unofficial term used in the film community for the period of the year when there are lowered commercial …

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TOP 10 FILMS of 2013 and The Worst/Most Disappointing Films of the Year

It took me a while to finally publish my Top 10 list, but my plan was to post this sometime in January anyway. Now, when I say 'top movies' it's sort of a cross between a 'best of and favorite', so the criteria is that these films made an impression on me, combining the virtue …

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Five new-to-me actors I’d love to see more of – based on 2013 viewings

Since I started last year, I'm going to make this post an annual thing (well, for as long as I have this blog that is). I mentioned in the first post that one of the joys of watching movies is discovering new talents. Again, I may not necessarily love the film they appear in, but …

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