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Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, and Michelle Williams Directed by Martin Scorsese Rated R for disturbing violent content, language, and some nudity 2 hours 18 minutes Shutter Island refers to the location of a fictional facility for the criminally insane. Someone has gone missing there, so U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) goes to [...]

Starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, and Robert Duvall Directed by Scott Cooper Rated R for language and brief sexuality 1 hour 51 minutes Jeff Bridges won the best actor Oscar for this performance as Bad Blake, a washed-up alcoholic country singer who is struggling to put his life together.  While on the road [...]

Starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, and the voices of Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Chazz Palminteri, Steve Zahn, Bruno Kirby, and Jennifer Tillly Directed by Rob Minkoff Rated PG for brief language 1 hour 24 minutes Usually I’m not a big fan of talking animal movies (in this case mice and cats), but this [...]

Here’s a recent list of the most-viewed films on Netflix: Crash The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Bucket List The Departed Iron Man No Country for Old Men The Pursuit of Happyness The Proposal Gran Torino Casino Royale I did like all of these movies, especially The Departed, No Country for Old Men, and [...]

Starring Max Records and Catherine Keener Directed by Spike Jonze Rated PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief language 1 hour 41 minutes I’m not really sure how to classify this movie about a child who runs away to a fantasy land.  I wanted to say “family”, but it’s too dark for [...]

Documentary Directed by Anders Ostergaard Not Rated, but likely PG-13 for violence 1 hour 29 minutes A corrupt government holds its people hostage and doesn’t want the world to know about it, so they cut off all media outlets.  Foreign news reporters are banned and the Internet is shut down.  The only way the news [...]

The MORE Libraries are a group of libraries in Western Wisconsin which share resources.  Here are their top 10 most checked-out DVDs of 2009: The Bucket List Juno Ratatouille Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull National Treasure: Book of Secrets (looks terrible) Iron Man 27 Dresses (not interested) August Rush Nim’s Island [...]

Documentary Directed by Kevin MacDonald Rated R for language 1 hour 47 minutes I saw this one on a best documentary list and though I’d check it out.  Like Man on Wire, this story is so amazing it’s hard to believe it’s true.  Two hikers set out to scale an extremely dangerous,  previously unclimbed peak [...]