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Reviews By Maureen Buccellato

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Pretty Woman

(Maureen Buccellato) 2/10/2009 6:21 PM EDT
Academy Award Winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress, Erin Brockovich, 2000) and Golden Globe winner Richard Gere (Best Actor In A Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy, Chicago, 2002) light up the screen in director Garry Marshall's (The Princess Diaries, Beaches) classic Cinderella story.What little girl (or grown girl for that matter) doesn't dream of ... Read More

Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

(Maureen Buccellato) 10/6/2008 1:43 PM EDT
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! That's right, I said it three times. Now, as I wait for Michael Keaton to appear in my living room, let me do my glowing review of this Tim Burton classic. While fixing up their New England farmhouse, Adam and Barbara head into town to pick something up at the hardware store, but while crossing ove... Read More

Sex and The City

(Maureen Buccellato) 9/23/2008 10:47 AM EDT
Ever since the show ended on HBO, I have been waiting to hear if the movie would indeed come to fruition. Some of the actresses were on board and others were not. Four years later, everyone came together, however, and created a film that picked up right where the series left off.First things first...Big and Carrie: It was great to see that th... Read More

The Sword In The Stone

(Maureen Buccellato) 6/15/2008 10:58 PM EDT
It's been 45 years since the 1963 release of Disney's "The Sword in the Stone". To celebrate this milestone anniversary, Disney has released this timeless classic on DVD. Prepare to be enchanted for 79 minutes as a young apprentice named Wart teams up with Merlin in an attempt to pull the magical sword from the stone and become king.Merli... Read More

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

(Maureen Buccellato) 1/17/2008 4:02 PM EDT
When most people hear "Sweeny Todd" they know very little: Some know it was a Broadway play/musical, and maybe they remember in the film "Jersey Girl", the little girl performed a gory scene from it at her school talent show. That about sums it up. It is safe to say that if Johnny Depp wasn't in this film and Tim Burton didn't m... Read More