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Parents

(Leonard Buccellato) 1/30/2017 4:05 PM EDT
Parents, an underrated black comedy, directed by Bob Balaban (My Boyfriend's Back) and written by Christopher Hawthorne and starring Randy Quaid (National Lampoon's Vacation), Mary Beth Hurt (Untraceable), and Sandy Dennis (976-EVIL).Meet the Laemles. Dad's got a great job, mom has all the modern conveniences a happy homemaker could ask fo... Read More

Pinocchio

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/30/2017 1:43 PM EDT
In 1940, Walt Disney captured our imaginations when he brought the beloved character of Pinocchio to the theaters. Based on the Italian children's novel by Carlo Collido it teaches valuable lessons about lying and the differences between right and wrong. With lovable characters and catchy songs, it melted hearts all over the world a... Read More

Ballers: The Complete Second Season

(Jennifer Broderick) 1/30/2017 1:40 PM EDT
Ballers is an HBO series that first aired in 2015. It's a show that looks at NFL agents and athlete and the problems that they go up against dealing with the sports agencies, greedy owners, and the increasingly money-driven NFL itself. Season One was a solid show and kept enough interest for HBO t... Read More

Queen of Katwe

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/30/2017 9:49 AM EDT
Sometime between 280 and 550 A.D. in Eastern India, the foundation for the modern game of Chess was born. Evolving and changing throughout the centuries, it essentially became what we know today in approximately 1475. A game of skill and strategy, it uses a board of sixty-four squares and thirty-two pieces (16 per player) and while know... Read More

The Light Between Oceans

(Jennifer Broderick) 1/24/2017 2:12 PM EDT
The Light Between Oceans is a romantic drama based upon the 2012 novel of the same name by M.L. Stedman. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures takes on a deep topic to bring to the big screen. Done with grace and dignity, The Light Between Oceans is a wonderful, but bittersweet story about love, life, a... Read More

Homeland: The Complete Fifth Season

(Nathan M Rose) 1/19/2017 11:01 AM EDT
Showtime debuted Homeland in October 2011, and, since then, fans have followed the story of Carrie Mathison (Claire Daines, Stardust), a CIA operations officer who suffers from bi-polar disorder. Throughout the years, there have been many story arcs, perhaps most notably, the death of Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis; Ocean's Eight) in season three... Read More

Birth of a Natiaon

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/17/2017 8:23 PM EDT
Slavery in this country has been the fodder of major motion pictures since the epic drama Roots aired on television in the 1970's. The injustice befallen on African Americans has fascinated and horrified us and has been depicted in graphic detail on occasion. While the stories have been told time and time again, it seems we ca... Read More

Keeping Up With The Joneses

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/17/2017 11:05 AM EDT
Spy movies are generally very popular and well received in this country, especially when there is a team of spies. Some are serious films, while others are meant to be comedies or parodies. In 2005, we got spies in suburbia (and real life drama) with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. This year, we once again see espionage come to the world of s... Read More

The Girl On The Train

(Jennifer Broderick) 1/16/2017 3:02 PM EDT
When Universal Studios wants to pick a book to develop into one of the best thriller-mystery movies of the year, they go to Paula Hawkins and create a screenplay and movie of the same name as the book and present it to the audience with twists and turns at every moment of the film. The Girl On The Train is an unpredictable story that will keep... Read More

Girls: The Complete Fifth Season

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/9/2017 9:25 PM EDT
Home Box Office has continually been synonymous with outstanding televisions series almost from the time they started producing them, and they show no signs of slowing down now. Case in point, the series Girls, about to start it's sixth season in February, has been nominated and won numerous awards over the past 5 years. The ... Read More