The Company Men

Published June 20, 2011 | By Bman

The Company Men
Recommended A topical film that grapples (somewhat aloofly) with the importance of "work" in our daily lives, The Company Men is reasonably intelligent and well-acted – and it features Kevin Costner finally pulling off an accent. Writer-director John Wells tackles the ongoing recession with sensitivity, portraying three characters (played by Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Chris …
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Rent it: Video verdict
This week’s major home video releases are all over the map genre-wise, but the best of the batch is a special effects thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Patty Hearst
Recommended The Movie: In this odd bio-pic directed by Paul Schrader and based off of Patricia Hearst’s own biography, 1988’s Patty Hearst stars pretty Natasha Richardson as the titular lead. The film basically follows the events of her life in the mid-seventies where, as she was the well to do daughter of a newspaper mogul, she was kidnapped by the members of Symbionese Liberation Army lead by …
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