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Welcome to the Rileys: Like The Blind Side, But With More Oscar BaitThe premise for Welcome to the Rileys has been described by some critics as the thinking moviegoer's The Blind Side, and I suppose that's fair. After losing their daughter in a car accident, a married couple (played magnificently by James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo) have grown apart, and have managed to avoid facing and dealing with their crushing grief. Like, completely. They don't speak to each other, he's cheating with a Waffle House waitress, and she's deathly afraid to leave the house, among other issues. But when Gandolfini comes across a teen hooker (played by Kristen Stewart) with more sores than positive role models in her life while on a business trip to New Orleans, he decides she represents a second chance at saving his daughter, gets Melissa Leo on board, and after a bumpy road, emotional healing is had by all.
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Reviews of Movies We've Actually Seen
See Where the Wild Things Are, Even if You Hate Dave Eggers, Children and Hipster SoundtracksBetween all the gorgeous early viral marketing for this movie and the day I actually went to see it, I had gone from over the top psyched about it to actually pretty worried, based on how mixed the reviews have been. But after seeing it, I'm a little baffled by that. It's got a bleeding heart and, OK, maybe not the most sophisticated plot in the world, but it's pretty hard not to like this film as a whole. And it's not like I just go around liking everything, to say the least.
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Fans of the BBC series The Thick of It, a show that parodies the inner workings of U.S. and British government agencies, may be glad to hear that it's getting a re-working on the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter announced today that BBC Films is producing an unofficial adaptation titled In the Loop.
James Gandolfini has been cast as a US general in the film and will star along side Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison and other stars from the series who will reprise their rolls for the big screen adaptation.
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