Movie Reviews: Red Riding Hood, Mars Needs Moms
ChicagoNow (blog)
Mars Needs Moms, based on the children's book by Berkeley Breathed, is no classic. Though purportedly epic in scope - how can it not be when most of the movie is set on Mars? - the movie is fairly simple and slight, and at under 90 minutes, short. ...
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Classic Movie Reviews: Taxi Driver
Heartland View
The movie follows his slow descent into madness as he becomes obsessed with "cleaning the trash" of the city and his paranoia of everyone around him. After encountering a 12-year old prostitute (played by a young Jodi Foster), he becomes disgusted with ...
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Al Morgan, Novelist, Playwright and Television Producer, Is Dead at 91
New York Times
He was not, and two years later a movie based on the book, directed by and starring José Ferrer, was released to favorable reviews. Later that year Mr. Morgan's novel "Cast of Characters," a critical look at movie-industry figures, was published. ...
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