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Tom Tangney

  • Julie & Julia
    August 7, 2009 9:06 am
    The new movie “Julie & Julia,” starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, is about the world famous Julia Child and a relatively unknown blogger who…
  • The surprise star of the summer: the Iraq war? (Yes, really)
    July 31, 2009 6:38 am
    It’s no doubt mere coincidence that in the very summer we withdraw our troops from Iraq, the two best movies of the summer happen to…
  • Orphan: There’s something about Esther
    July 24, 2009 7:11 am
    There are a lot of junky horror movies and ORPHAN ends up being one of them. But one of the nice things about the horror…
  • Harry Potter and the red herring
    July 20, 2009 6:30 am
    As HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE draws to a close, Harry mutters in exasperation that all his strenuous efforts had been a big waste.…
  • Interview with Humpday director
    July 10, 2009 9:24 am
    Tom's still living it up in the Indian Ocean but the long-awaited new movie by local filmmaking celeb Lynn Shelton finally arrives in theatres across…
  • TUESDAYS with MAURI (tius)
    July 7, 2009 3:51 pm
    Greetings from halfway around the world . When both our kids were still in grade school, Paige and I told them that in the summer…
  • Michael Jackson: The Ray Bolger Of His Generation?
    June 26, 2009 6:05 am
    While most people, no doubt, marked the passing of Michael Jackson by listening to their favorite songs of his or watching his videos on youtube,…
  • It’s twice as easy to earn a nomination for Best Picture
    June 25, 2009 10:22 am
    The word came down from Academy President Sid Ganis: they’re doubling the number of Best Pic nominations from 5 to 10. This move smacks of…
  • Dads in the movies
    June 19, 2009 8:23 am
    It’s fitting in a perverse kind of way that Francis Ford Coppola’s TETRO opens this Father’s Day weekend. After all, it’s about the long-term destructive…
  • Interview: Francis Ford Coppola
    June 12, 2009 7:50 am
    Francis Ford Copppla was the picture of contentment in Seattle this week. He seemed to be the perfect embodiment of a man very much at…

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