Tee Off…

Mark Fields

Feb 27, 2015, Uncategorized

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. . . with six movie comedies set on the links While 

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Colin Firth stars as Harry Hart, an impeccably suave spy, in Kingsman: The Secret Service. (Photo Jaap Buitendijk, © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

Kingsman: Not Quite Royalty

Mark Fields

Feb 27, 2015, Uncategorized

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Graphic-novel spy spoof full of visual thrills but lacks human touch Many 

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(L-r) Kyle Gallner as Goat-Winston and Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle in American Sniper. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.

American Sniper Misses the Mark

Mark Fields

Jan 29, 2015, Uncategorized

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Military biopic shines in-country, stumbles at home Early in American Sniper, the 

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James Corden as the Baker and Lilla Crawford as Little Red Riding Hood in Into The Woods. (Photo Fair Hill, LL)

Will You Be Into Into the Woods?

Mark Fields

Dec 31, 2014, Uncategorized

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Well-executed movie musical requires a special audience The musical form succeeds well 

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Steve Carell plays John du Pont; Channing Tatum is Mark Schultz. (Photo by Fair Hill, LLC.)

Wrestling With Reality

Mark Fields

Dec 1, 2014, Uncategorized

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John du Pont/Schultz story: strong acting in “incomplete film experience” The tragic 

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Down, On Main Street

Mark Fields

Dec 1, 2014, Uncategorized

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Six movies that probe the good and the bad—mostly the bad—of small 

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They All Fall Down

Mark Fields

Nov 1, 2014, Uncategorized

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Seven nearly perfect movies for autumn Fall, that wonderful time of the 

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Bill Murray and Jaeden Lieberher star in St. Vincent. (Photo Atsushi Nishijima)

Without a Wink and a Smile

Mark Fields

Nov 1, 2014, Uncategorized

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Murray, McCarthy transcend personas in St. Vincent Who would have thought that 

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Splendor Is the Grass

Mark Fields

Oct 3, 2014, Uncategorized

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Eight munchie-evoking movies Pineapple Express (2008) A pothead process server (Rogen) and 

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(L-r) TINA FEY as Wendy Altman, COREY STOLL as Paul Altman, JANE FONDA as Hilary Altman, JASON BATEMAN as Judd Altman and ADAM DRIVER as Phillip Altman in This Is Where I Leave You. (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

This Is Where I Leave You

Mark Fields

Oct 3, 2014, Uncategorized

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Thomas Wolfe said you can’t go home again. According to the new 

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