Forget who gets to keep the ring—when a couple splits, the real question is, who gets to keep the friends? In this modern comedy, a couple’s break-up will complicate all of their friends’ lives and make everyone question their choices. When life throws you for a curve, hold on tight to the people you...
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Sylvester Stallone and his cast of fellow action stars flex substantial ensemble muscle in this high-energy battle between good mercenaries and bad mercenaries. An effective mix of lean and over-the-top, “The Expendables” is often preposterous, but it achieves the immediacy of a graphic novel without the overdone mythology. Genre fans for whom there’s no...
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It’s not that Mary-Louise Parker isn’t comfortable with nude scenes. She’s all for physical and emotionally revealing roles. But her recent nude scene in her hit Showtime series “Weeds” went too far: “I didn’t think I needed to be naked,” she tells MORE magazine. “I fought with the director about it, and now I...
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Jill Behm
Brothers - 2009
The Vineyard Man