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“Black Swan”—Dancing in the In-Between

Written by diana on January 1, 2011. Posted in movie reviews. 4 Comments on “Black Swan”—Dancing in the In-Between

This spellbinding movie, routinely described as a psychological thriller, is not to everyone’s taste but I absolutely loved it: dancing around the thin membrane between a fantasy/dream world and reality. Starring Natalie Portman as Nina, the beautiful but fragile ballerina who wishes to be the prima ballerina of Swan Lake, the movie opens...

“127 Hours”: The Instinct to Survive and the Will to Live

Written by diana on December 14, 2010. Posted in movie reviews.

My husband and I just saw the movie that brings to the screen the harrowing tale of 23 year old mountain climber Aron Ralston, who literally cuts himself loose from a boulder in a slot canyon in Blue John, a remote area of the Moab desert in Utah, the state with the most slot canyons in the world. (A slot canyon is a narrow and extremely steep...

“FAIR GAME”—Go see it!!

Written by diana on November 28, 2010. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “FAIR GAME”—Go see it!!

I just saw perhaps my favorite movie so far this year, the political thriller “FAIR GAME”, based on memoirs by Valerie Plame (My Life as a Spy) and her husband, Joe Wilson (The Politics of Truth). I was glued to my television set when the events were actually happening in 2004 because of the nakedness and brutality of leaking a spy’s identity....

“Black Swan”—Dancing in the In-Between

“127 Hours”: The Instinct to Survive and the Will to Live

“FAIR GAME”—Go see it!!

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