Crazy Heart
Opens: Friday, Feb 5th, 2010
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Genre: Romance
Cast:
Jeff Bridges
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Robert Duvall
Tom Bower
Colin Farrell
James Keane
William Marquez
Ryan Bingham
Paul Herman
Rick Dial
Jack Nation
Release Date: November 30th, 1999
Runtime: 112 minutes
With too many years of hazy days and boozy nights,former country-music legend Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is reduced to playing dives and bowling alleys. In town for his latest gig, Blake meets Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a sympathetic reporter who has come to do a story on him. He unexpectedly warms to her and a romance begins, then the singer finds himself at a crossroads that may threaten his last shot at happiness.
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The Movie Masochist: Aim low, hit lower

Story by James Franklin McClatchy-Tribune Information Services - September 8th, 2010

Years ago the great American movie critic Pauline Kael made it safe to enjoy bad movies. "Because movies are so rarely great art, if we can’t appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them," she wrote.

Based on early reviews, "Piranha 3D" sounded like great trash — a lightweight exploitation movie with a sense of humor to accompany its buckets of gore and gratuitous bare boobs. It goes out of its way — and then some — to be an outrageous, mindless good time, and in trying so hard to please it becomes exhausting. In a short while, the movie becomes something like a loud, drunken party guest whose dirty jokes prove embarrassing instead of amusing. ...read more.