Karl Scott

The Fight For The Oscars. Contenders: Dallas Buyers Club/Rated R For Sex, Drugs, Drinking And Sick People With Self Destructive Habits. Blue Jasmine/Rated Pg-13 For Sex, Drugs, Drinking And Bad People.

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The Oscar nominations have arrived. One prominent film, if for no reason other than it stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, is Dallas Buyers Club, which is nominated for best picture. In Dallas Buyers Club McConaughey is an electrician from Texas who hangs out at rodeos. He drinks, dopes, and, to his misfortune, engages in … Read more

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug/Rated PG-13 For Violence Including Impaling And Decapitations, Often To The Same Orcs Who Deserved It Before

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Director Peter Jackson has returned with another long installment of his ongoing, never ending, here-comes-another-one, will-this-ever-end chapter in the saga of Middle Earth and the odd goings on therein. Having experienced the entire Lord of the Rings (2001 to 2003) I suspected I was in for more of the same. I was right. Once again … Read more

Big Business, The Music Box and 11 Hours of Cheap Holiday Fun/Not rated but everything herein is good for everyone.

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Before they became a legendary comedy team, Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) were already making people laugh. Prior to 1925, SL had been in over 50 films and OH in 250. They first appeared together around 1921, but not yet as a comedy team. Many of these films from the silent era were … Read more

Saving Mr. Banks / Rated Pg-13 For Smoking, Drinking And Arguing. Lots And Lots Of Arguing.

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Helen Lyndon Goff (1899-1996) was a well-known writer of children’s books. Under the name Pamela Lyndon Travers (P.L. Travers) she created the ever-popular Mary Poppins. Eight films were made of the story between1934 and 1989, but the best known was Disney’s 1964 hit. The film was honored with several Oscars, including Julie Andrews as Best … Read more

Frozen/Rated PG For Minor Violence, Some Scary Stuff And Snow. Lots And Lots Of Snow.

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Walt Disney’s latest animated feature, Frozen, is very loosely based on “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen. (Reportedly, Andersen was very interested in working on the screenplay, but couldn’t since he died in 1875.) Disney has had previous success with his stories; the biggest being The Little Mermaid (1989), which generated endless products, sequels, … Read more

Thor: The Dark World/Rated PG-13 For Violence, Confusion Over Who Is Who, Since People Keep Turning Into Other People And Kissing, Although You Are Not Sure Who Is Kissing Whom.

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Marvel Comics’ Thor is back and brawnier than ever. More and more ladies are showing up as if Jack/Leonardo DiCaprio from Titanic had been reincarnated as Thor. Thirty year-old Aussie, Chris Hemsworth, plays Thor again. He is big, tough, and has a big hammer. It flies around and always returns to him like an Australian … Read more

Last Vegas / Rated PG-13 For Partial Nudity, Language, Drugs, Alcohol, Gambling – or – What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas, Doesn’t It?

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Some call this film a geriatric version of The Hangover. It is and it isn’t. It features mainly older Hollywood superstars, but only one hangover is seen and it seems to wear off after about five minutes. The geriatric partygoers include, in order of age, Morgan Freeman (76), Robert De Niro (70), Michael Douglas (69), … Read more