Mao’s Last Dancer
by ()
( minutes)
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(23)
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet.
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Posted: Monday, May 30, 2011 at 9:30 pm by Sylvhania
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Sergeant York
by Howard Hawks (2006-11-07)
Warner Home Video (134 minutes)
average customer review: (178)
True story of a country boy sharpshooter drafted in WWI despite being a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero.
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Posted: Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 10:04 pm by Sylvhania
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Westworld
by Michael Crichton (2010-11-09)
Warner Home Video (92 minutes)
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(145)
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
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Posted: Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 5:28 pm by Sylvhania
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The Social Network
by David Fincher (2011-01-11)
Sony Pictures (120 minutes)
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(418)
A chronicle of the founding of Facebook, the social-networking Web site.
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Posted: Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 5:25 pm by Sylvhania
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The Day Boy & The Night Girl
by George MacDonald ()
average customer review: (3)
An 1882 fairy tale novel by George MacDonald. A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must escape from the witch Watho.
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Posted: Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 6:48 am by Sylvhania
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Dear American Airlines
by Jonathan Miles ()
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(71)
This crisp yowl of a first novel from Miles finds despairing yet effusive litterateur Benjamin Ford midair in midlife crisis. Bennie is en route from New York; he gets stranded at O'Hare. In the long, empty hours amid a marooned crowd, Bennie's demand for a refund quickly becomes a scathing yet oddly joyful reflection on his difficult life.
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Posted: Friday, May 27, 2011 at 10:37 pm by Sylvhania
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Funny Girl
by (2001-10-23)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (151 minutes)
average customer review: (111)
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 8:30 pm by Sylvhania
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The Price of Everything
by Eduardo Porter ()
average customer review: (42)
Business journalist and New York Times editorial writer Porter delivers a popular explication of how supply and demand affect prices. In vignettes about all manner of transactions, from coffee sales to marriage dowries to home values, he disputes notions that prices settle out as rational correlations of supply and demand.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 8:56 pm by Sylvhania
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Waiting For “Superman”
by Davis Guggenheim (2011-02-15)
Paramount Vantage (111 minutes)
average customer review: (162)
In a documentary sure to get parents and teachers talking--and arguing--An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim offers an eye-opening overview of America's ailing educational system.
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Posted: Friday, May 20, 2011 at 8:44 pm by Sylvhania
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National Velvet
by Clarence Brown (2000-07-11)
Warner Home Video (125 minutes)
average customer review: (74)
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 8:18 pm by Sylvhania
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