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Jax's Movie List: White Nights: White Nights, 1985 Staring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolmowsk Set in the Cold War, White Nights is Bary...

White Nights, 1985
Staring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolmowsk

Set in the Cold War, White Nights is Baryshnikov's vehicle, though presenting not only his talents as a dancer, but those of the Late Great Gregory Hines.

I must admit, my first look at Helen Mirren in that dark theater in 1985, it was obvious the class and range she possessed as an actress. She was a jilted Russian ballerina: blonde hair pulled back from a face made-up in pure class.  From her pear...

Pure Beauty encasing talent and a coolness that puts a tat
on her chest. This is a woman who sits high as a role model.

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There are two facts established in my life: 1) I am a certifiable Crazy Cat Lady; and 2) Norman Reedus was, at a convention, nice to my kid.  He didn't have to be, he chose to be.  He took time to spend with her, knowing she was ill. Not hours or anything, but enough time to make a difference to her...and me. He stands as the wallpaper on my phone not because of a cute mole or gorgeous eyes, but because he is a constant reminder that there is good in t...

It’s National Detective Day.  I was informed this by one of my favorite detectives and it made me realize that though I have taken Boondock Saints apart piece by piece, I never took a step back and addressed one of the best aspects of the whole movie: the back-up singers.  What is a band if you don’t have the harmony in the background to keep things on que?
There is never a time in a story when the anti-hero will take on the real bad guys, bring them down without a little smidgen of...

Leo is long over due and I rewatched Catch Me If You Can can and everything.  But with the move in place (between houses and at a hotel with three cats and a husband) it's hard to focus on that movie.

Blood Diamond came on in the hotel the first night, but the opening scenes scared me too much to go further.  I like hands.

But Catch Me If You Can, that was a really, really a great movie that showed and amazing range of a terrific actor. Starting when he was only sixteen years old in c...

“There appears to be some as-yet unknown underlying system that perfectly balances these various facets in such a way that makes it impossible to take one’s eyes off him from the second he comes into frame, even when he shares the screen with other handsome heartthrobs.”